{"id":5363,"date":"2010-12-06T18:26:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T16:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2012-12-12T17:38:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T16:38:56","slug":"how-wikileaks-will-make-the-world-a-safer-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5363","title":{"rendered":"How Wikileaks will make the world a safer place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I read articles like <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/fnAnOo\">this one<\/a> on CNN arguing how Wikileaks is providing potential target lists to terrorists I worry. \u00a0Probably so do you. \u00a0But think about this. \u00a0It was so easy for all this information to leak out that we should all wonder how safe it was to\u00a0begin with. \u00a0If Wikileaks, without any special spying skills, just being there to collect info, could get all this sensitive data, why couldn&#8217;t have Al Qaeda or any other of our enemies have done or do the same thing? \u00a0While we may object to the style of Wikileaks I have no doubt that thanks to Wikileaks, USA will completely rebuild the way it handles sensitive data and as a result the safety of the system will have been improved. \u00a0Wikileaks has the effect on security that hackers have on software development. \u00a0Wikileaks found simple bugs everywhere. \u00a0It is up to the people whose job is to make us safer to fix it. \u00a0Yes, granted, Wikileaks could have given all this info to the State Department and not publish it. \u00a0But sometimes it takes a shock like this for things to really change and what should be transparent be transparent and what should be classified be classified.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5363\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I read articles like this one on CNN arguing how Wikileaks is providing potential target lists to terrorists I worry. \u00a0Probably so do you. \u00a0But think about this. \u00a0It was so easy for all this information to leak out that we should all wonder how safe it was to\u00a0begin with. \u00a0If Wikileaks, without any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8],"tags":[619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6520,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions\/6520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}