US Gov’t Didn’t Think This One Through

The CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables. Its name? WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF for short.

Speaking of the WikiLeaks mess, this quote from EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow sums it up quite nicely:

We have reached a point in our history where lies are protected speech and the truth is criminal.

Could not have been said better.

The recent essay in The Atlantic entitled The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks is also worth a read.