The scale of the WikiLeaks’ information release and the responses on all sides demonstrate the emergence of new harsh realities for security, privacy, transparency and protest. Companies and governments alike will be vulnerable. In recent weeks Shaping Tomorrow has raised the issues of the rise and changing nature of cyber-crime, new forms of protests, the vulnerability of corporate reputations. The ongoing WikiLeaks events reflect the merging of these issues into a more complex and unstable reality.
What is changing?
The scale of the WikiLeaks information release shows that security services and companies alike are working in a new reality. Documents and ‘confidential’ information are not only much more accessible, but they are more transportable and more ‘sellable’ to either legitimate media outlets or criminal organisations.
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Contributed by Sheila Moorcroft, Research Director, Shaping Tomorrow
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