WikiLeaks: A terrorist's best friend?

[Renew Deal]

If WikiLeaks' Julian Assange were in memoir-writing mode, I'd bet "How to Win Friends and Influence People" would not be among the likely titles.

A week after releasing 251,000 diplomatic cables that caused at the very least embarrassment on a global scale -- and quite likely damaged U.S. ties with dozens of countries -- WikiLeaks has taken a step that will surely cause it to lose support from most of the people (like yours truly) who've defended it in the past.

On Sunday, WikiLeaks published a list of facilities around the world that, if taken out by terrorists, could cause all hell to break loose: Russian gas pipelines, Canadian hydroelectric dams, Danish vaccine factories, Saudi oil distilleries, Scottish nuclear sub facilities, bauxite mines in Africa, undersea cables near Mexico, and so on. The list was requested from various diplomatic missions around the world in 2008 by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Now of course, it's available to you and 6 billion of your closest friends, courtesy of WikiLeaks. Think of it as an early Christmas for al-Qaida -- if al-Qaida celebrated Christmas -- or really, any nut job with a grudge and the ability to turn ordinary household chemicals into a weapon. Why go hunting for a target when you can download a handy list?
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/wikileaks-terrorists-best-friend-712

[hobbit709]

1. Anyone with a working brain could have come up with a list like that.

And nobody's ever called the terrorists stupid.

Let me go around for an hour in any city and I could come up with at least a dozen potential targets and ways around whatever security there may be.

[frylock]

2. terrorists would have NEVER thought of blowing up gas pipelines if not for wikileaks assistance..

are you fucking shitting me with this crap? really?!!

[BanzaiBonnie]

3. Why Wikileaks is GOOD for America

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/wikileaks-editorial/

[WinkyDink]

4. Wait; Assange is making people go through revealing X-rays?