December 2010
105 posts
Bruce Schneier on Security: WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks
I don’t have a lot to say about WikiLeaks, but I do want to make a few points.
1. Encryption isn’t the issue here. Of course the cables were encrypted, for transmission. Then they were received and decrypted, and — so it seems — put into an archive on SIPRNet, where lots of people had access to them in their unencrypted form.
2. Secrets are only as...
