Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists is one of those people who tries to be a ‘responsible’ transparency advocate which requires him to criticize WikiLeaks. Democracy Now!, a wonderful news source, has Glenn Greenwald debate him. Well worth watching, right up to the end where host Amy Goodman reads memos from the government warning employees not to even read the cables released by WikiLeaks, even on their home computers!
fge says
Fact: Secrets are hard to keep. Cork out of the bottle. post-it-all 1-to:world. Your school or corporate emails? Is this a Problem ? Just as much the printed book once was. Main question: what’s next: E-Power to the people. Maybe it is good thing, because together we can control what no government can (ie. the global society we need to survive) Technology is a thread, it always was.. it always was unstoppable. However we NEED tech to survive. So..let’s discuss it