Monday, November 29, 2010

Sums it all up

From Roger Simon's column on Pajamas Media:
The criminality of self-righteous WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange aside, the State Department or other government nincompoops who authored the leaked documents and emails calling Sarkozy a “naked emperor,” etc., deserve to be terminated for extreme doofuss-ness. These days, a school child knows that what you write digitally is forever indelible.

If you have something nasty to say, do it over the water cooler or at a cocktail party, where you can deny you ever said it. Even write it down, if you must, on the back of a business card or scrap of note paper. They can be burned or flushed down the toilet. But for heaven’s sake don’t type it into a computer. There are no shredders for emails and Word docs. Are these people nitwits or do they have the impulse control of a two year old?
Absolutely right. Not that it matters. There seems very little in those leaks that a number of people with expertise had not worked out already though they might not have known the exact vocabulary used. Read the whole piece.

2 comments:

  1. The genesis of the huge leak appears to have been a decision to make all sorts of sensitive signals widely available- something very easy to do with computers and added to the indelibility you mention. Whatever happened to normal cryptographic procedure and the "need to know" principle?

    I bet that Harry Beckhough (96) whom Cameron praised so lavishly at the party conference and who worked at Bletchley Park and similar places in the war could give them a few pointers.
    In other respects, this could be " a good day to bury bad news" !

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  2. Didnt a highly (over?)paid politician amend a word document then lie about altering it without knowing the doc carries a digital history, we employ these monkeys for what??

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