Wiki-leaky

I keep reading about this whole Wikileaks thing.  Now don't get me wrong, I'm very much a free speech girl.  I believe in transparency in government, otherwise some of the folks in charge tend to get up to naughty business (remember Watergate?).  There are definetely times when it's 100 percent appropriate for the press to disclose classified things that governments and corporations are up to- it helps keep people honest.  But the reverse is also true- when one is in posession of information that could affect the safety of hundreds if not thousands of people, then one has a responsibility to act cautiously.  Dumping all sorts of classified information out there in the public domain without regards to the consequences to other people is not cool.  And anyway, I find it far more disturbing that Wikileaks was able to get the information in the first place. And they have this seemingly unbreakable code to protect the information they haven't released yet.  Apparently they have better security than our national security folks do!