Leaking US Government data could seen as a threat to US interests. Now leaking business information could be seen a threat to many interests.
Now It's easy to play the shift blame game if anything happened to the people behind Wikileaks. In the beginning it would have been easy to assume it was the US government taking convert action. Now who knows how many ways this could be twisted to hide the actions of any acting party.
Governments love secrets. Corporations love money.
If your going to play information warfare you might want to do a little bit of risk assessment.
I would assume those behind Wikileaks have a system in place such that information they already have will be released one way or another even if something happened to them.
if that server has collected information on it. It can be considered leaked. It's out of their control. I would think any interesting information could be considered all ready in the queue. If I wanted to do damage control the best option is to stop any addition of information to that server.
It was mentioned that Wikileaks redacts information.I'm sure it only a matter of time before that information "Leaks" as well.
Now It's easy to play the shift blame game if anything happened to the people behind Wikileaks. In the beginning it would have been easy to assume it was the US government taking convert action. Now who knows how many ways this could be twisted to hide the actions of any acting party.
Governments love secrets. Corporations love money.
If your going to play information warfare you might want to do a little bit of risk assessment.