A reader from the USA thinks that I may be out of touch with the general feeling of insecurity and perhaps even anxiety in America caused by the classified documents being published by Wikileaks.
My comment was :
I agree with you, but I think that after some time, even classified documents will cease to shock. You might even ask why so many document need to be classified in the first place. Maybe because it's a cushy job for some office of Washington bureaucrats. In any event, the cat's out of the bag, and we're never going to put it back in unless the US government resorts to the Chinese approach of cyber attacks on unfriendly or too-free websites. That smacks of police statism. And it is one of the real dangers vis-à-vis Wikileaks - that these releases will have just the opposite of the intended effect and lead to state policing of all our until-now protected communication. The Federal Communications Commission chairman has just announced that he'll seek new restrictions on internet activities, without, as he promises, curtailing any of our freedoms in using the internet. Watch out below!
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