The principle of precaution implies that if you have doubts that a source of information could be compromised, you should consider that it is compromised until poven otherwise.
Exsctly like with computer security: if you have any doubt that a system is compromised you must consider it compromised.
Granted it may sound like we are taking a leap of faith by insisting heavily that Wikileaks is likely compromised when we have no proof one way or the other. That is because of the principle of precaution. As a community we are better of being too skeptical about Wikileaks than not skeptical enough. The MSM are already covering the flip side of the coin by taking everything to facevalue without applying skepticism so for the sake of having all points of view covered let us be extremely skeptical and assume as false anything which isn't proven.
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The principle of precaution implies that if you have doubts that a source of information could be compromised, you should consider that it is compromised until poven otherwise. Exsctly like with computer security: if you have any doubt that a system is compromised you must consider it compromised.
Granted it may sound like we are taking a leap of faith by insisting heavily that Wikileaks is likely compromised when we have no proof one way or the other. That is because of the principle of precaution. As a community we are better of being too skeptical about Wikileaks than not skeptical enough. The MSM are already covering the flip side of the coin by taking everything to facevalue without applying skepticism so for the sake of having all points of view covered let us be extremely skeptical and assume as false anything which isn't proven.