With Wikileaks we might soon live in a world where the information that spies gather get read by more people than a small, closed audience.
Does that mean that those spies stop being spies?
It’s still not intended to be broadcast beyond that closed audience. Most information of that nature becomes far less useful when your opponent knows that you know.
With Wikileaks we might soon live in a world where the information that spies gather get read by more people than a small, closed audience. Does that mean that those spies stop being spies?
If I send a secret report to my boss, and Mr. Smith manages to read it and publishes it on the Times, the journalist is Mr. Smith, not me,
It’s still not intended to be broadcast beyond that closed audience. Most information of that nature becomes far less useful when your opponent knows that you know.