I neither trust Courage or WikiLeaks or Snowden or anyone else telling me "they are doing this for the people" those people have no idea where their masters coming from. they hack into systems, steal data, get somebody to release it and sail through the web because on some point in our human history somebody thought it would be a good idea "to leak information". This may be a matter of point in the 50s or after World War Two and during the Cold War.
Leaking classified information to the public, whatever this information is, just speeds up another powerful party on this planet. And dear people as you are reading this you all know there are many Country´s you would like to see they would not have a single nuke.
In the begin I was excited by this leaking culture. it was like: "heeey there is someone doing something very good for the people!"
That is what I call the "
cult-effect". every cult owns it´s sugar to attract new followers. what we see is the begin of a new religion. People believe in what they see, what they get, what they can touch. far away from the old gods they where told to worship - those gods that never answered.
People always believe in something. if it is not an god it may be a "thing", "the truth" - whatever. something everyone owns he just believes in and even if it´s just your soccer team will win this game even 2 goals behind in minute 90.
There was an NSA camp for students, GenCyber, One of the first message they learned was:
https://twitter.com/PCATTTweet/status/621871244514852864This is all I have to say about Wikileaks and any others following this new Religion. They never thought a second about "what would happen if...". But they all will learn that if. I guess that´s just simple maths :-).