I concur. Another result of informing the public in this manner is that reporting on the leak is murky and alarmist.

Yesterday I watched the Tagesschau, a highly-regarded public TV news program, and their report on this story was so short on information that all it could do -- whether consciously or not -- was to vaguely convey how dangerous cyberspace is. They even had the visuals of numbers flying through space for lack of actual informative content. In a country that's already often backwards when it comes to digital communication technologies, this kind of reporting is completely unhelpful.