> On Wed, December 1, 2010 10:12 am, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
> > The problem is that the pool of diplomatic cables in the hands of
> > Wikileaks
> > will dry out, and getting new ones will be made almost impossible...
>
> Not at all. Every security system ever invented depends on one factor:
> people. If they don't believe in their leaders or their system, they'll
> leak information.
>
Yes, but in this case, whole cables were copy-pasted, which gave them legitimacy.
If they resort to in-person talks or make it impossible to read those memos on a PC (ie by installing a device with goggles that only one person at a time can read, by sitting on a special terminal), then the potential to copy such communications in full is heavily dimminished, leaving you with the equivalent of hearsay.
In other words, it´s one thing to have someone from an embassy approach you and tell you "the state dept calls the German Chancellor ´Teflon Merkel´" and to have only the word of that person as "proof" vs a whole different impact of having the full text of such communications, word by word, in an exact duplicate.
Of course, nothing stops someone from devicing a retina-connected digicam which can be implanted inside somoene´s brain....
FC