WikiLeaks ... How future wars would take place

After the embarrassment of the U.S. department of state caused from leaked classified documents obtained by WikiLeaks, no one thought government’s response would make it even worse. Whether you think what WikiLeaks did was legitimate or not you have to give credit to the people behind it for being able to get these classified documents. Or maybe you should blame it all on the weakness of the U.S. cyber security over its documents. Recently, government warned federal workers and contractors not to attempt to read the classified documents on WikiLeaks on either government or personal computers. “To the contrary, classified information, whether or not already posted on public websites or disclosed to the media remains classified, and must be treated as such by federal employees and contractors, until it is declassified by an appropriate U.S. Government authority," the warning said. This is a great demonstration of how a bureaucratic organization, such as government, works. Everyone has access to these documents and instead of thinking about how this happened and try to fix the issue, they are sending warnings to their employees asking them not to visit the website. Like imposing their bureaucratic laws would do us any good in this situation.

On a recent interview to a cyber security agent of the department of defense by CNN, he said only 60% of defense’s computers are protected from serious hacking. He added that if someone downloaded a lot of classified data on a flash memory no one would figure out until after something like WikiLeaks happens. The U.S. government should start protecting its information from hackers so it won’t embarrass them in front of other nations and damage our diplomatic relationships. Also, government needs to learn that in the 21^st century it is almost impossible to hide anything from the public. In a world that WikiLeaks exist, government should try to be more transparent to its people. I think government could have handled the situation much better by taking actions before these documents were posted, at least they could attack the WikiLeaks’ website and shut their servers down. No expert would tell you that the U.S. does not have such an ability to shut down WikiLeaks’ servers but it is a wonder why these documents leaked in the first place. On the other hand, these leaks showed us one good thing about this administration and I should give Obama’s administration one score for that. WikiLeaks’ showed that all Arab countries have been begging the United States to attack Iran and “cut the snake’s head” but Obama administration and partly Bush’s administration resisted such a request. Whether we believe WikiLeaks’ present is going to benefit or harm us as a society, we have to find a way to deal with it and that is what our government hasn’t done yet. Until then, bravo to Julian Assange the guy behind WikiLeaks for at least giving a heads up of how easy it is to get cyber attacks.