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Old 07-31-2010, 08:09 AM   #49 (permalink)
Slims
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Well, congratulations back-seat quarterbacks.....by encouraging the sort of behavior we have seen from Wikileaks people are going to be killed:

"The Taliban is wired, and they’re pouring over the military intelligence published by WikiLeaks earlier this week.

"We are studying the report," Zabihullah Mujahid, a self-proclaimed spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan, told British television station Channel 4.

"We will investigate through our own secret service whether the people mentioned are really spies working for the U.S. If they are U.S. spies, then we know how to punish them."

The Taliban is well-known for executing their enemies. These revenge killings typically take place in public, as a warning to would-be opposition."

Read more: Taliban in Afghanistan says they will target informants outed by WikiLeaks for working with U.S.


Wikileaks 'harm minimization' efforts are a massive fail. They don't understand enough about the units in the reports to adequately filter them. And while they removed the 'names' of the informants they did not pull the rest of the identifying information...which is often all it takes.

When a report details a meeting (which maybe 10 people attended) and then mentions the fathers name of the informant it pretty much narrows it down.

Also, people are identifable as much by fathers name-tribe-village as by personal names which they may change




It is not 'getting ahead of the story' when Zabiullah Mujaheed makes a press release about this topic...it's a disaster.
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