Wikileaks, Palileaks…is ANYTHING secret any more?
The concepts of the words "Confidential", "Secret", "Classified" have changed dramatically, the world over, in the past few months. And this should effect all of us. For many years, information which was expected to be hidden from public view, has occasionally “leaked” to the public arena. Confidential government discussions appear the next morning in the national newspapers; published memoirs have exposed delicate or scandalous information for centuries; and prying eyes & spies have always meant that confidential and secret information can be compromised. However, we have never seen exposure of concealed information on the scale of Wikileaks, blogs and me-too publications, such as the latest batch of over a thousand Palestinian internal documents, leaked to Al Jazira and The Guardian. This is mainly a combination of the new will to break centuries old protocols and protective barriers, with the technological means to practically avoid Big Br...