War on WikiLeaks is a losing battle

WikiLeaks’ true legacy might not be more transparency but the destruction of internet freedoms, says Dan Buckley

IN God we trust. All others we monitor. That’s not just a memorable catchphrase. It is also the philosophy behind Xceedium, an American company that seeks to protect companies and major internet users from the kind of breaches that WikiLeaks has laid bare.

As Ken Ammon, the company’s chief strategy officer puts it: “What do Metallica and the US government have in common? They are both fighting to control information once it has been placed on the internet. Like Napster, which rocked the musicindustry by enabling piracy and was eventually sued by the band Metallica, the current WikiLeaks crisis is simply another example of a controversial yet highly efficient and hard to stop internet distribution engine for the global sharing of data.”