I respect the ideal behind wikileaks but its not very important, and i believe that it takes a quite considerable amount of naivete to believe that this behaviour is beneficial to the masses rather than the groups and organisations that wikileaks is 'against' (!)
The 'transparency' is only of value for people who are too fucking stupid to understand that people are people no matter what job they are in, and should absolutely be expected to behave this way if there are not checks and balances in place.
Spamming out people's personal details is not just sloppy, it is giving ammunition to criminals and maybe even the target of this press release...
Personally I consider that to be very /wrong/ it may be legal or illegal or whatever, but its just wrong - people can come to some kind of harm as a result of this action. Conversely the benefit is that stupid people get their eyes opened? You can fuck right off frankly...
Noble intentions or not, wikileaks should not give people genuine reasons to attack them. This is precisely one.
The 'transparency' is only of value for people who are too fucking stupid to understand that people are people no matter what job they are in, and should absolutely be expected to behave this way if there are not checks and balances in place.
Spamming out people's personal details is not just sloppy, it is giving ammunition to criminals and maybe even the target of this press release...
Personally I consider that to be very /wrong/ it may be legal or illegal or whatever, but its just wrong - people can come to some kind of harm as a result of this action. Conversely the benefit is that stupid people get their eyes opened? You can fuck right off frankly...
Noble intentions or not, wikileaks should not give people genuine reasons to attack them. This is precisely one.