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Wikileaks Cablegate: Time to Blame the Victim?

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Dissent

Paul Roberts writes:

The Pentagon says the leak of diplomatic cables was an unforeseen consequence of its policy to encourage information sharing. That’s nonsense. When it comes to its failure to protect classified data, Uncle Sam’s been warned before.

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It was an act of almost total malfeasance, the responsibility for which lies squarely in the lap of the U.S. government and the Pentagon, which has – for years – ignored warnings from the GAO and other watchdogs about the potential for just such a breach, while – events would suggest – displaying an almost comical cluelessness about basic network and data security principles that most corporations and non-profit organizations have long since learned. This from an organization charged with guarding the crown jewels of a super power’s military and diplomatic secrets. In short, while it’s never nice to blame the victim in incidents like this, in the case of the Wikileaks controversy, blaming the victim – and holding it to account – is exactly what’s needed.

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