Thiessen and Wikileaks

Marc Thiessen's 7 December 2010 Washington Post column is entitled, non-ironically, "You're either with us, or you're with WikiLeaks." (Thanks to Daring Fireball for the pointer.) Just in time for the holidays, it's the first Santa Troll sighting!

Like the war on terror, we have been attacked in this new cyber war in ways we did not anticipate.

Betrayal by a trusted party is as old as mankind. But Thiessen, like the President whose boneheaded pronouncement he ripped off, has no sense of history. He also has no knowledge of networked computing, but given his monumental core wrongness, that's almost beside the point.

Just as terrorism allows small groups of individuals to wreak destruction on a scale that was once the province of nation-states, information technology allows small actors such as Julian Assange to wreak previously unimagined destruction on U.S. national security through cyberspace.

So I guess the person who provided the information to Assange bears no responsibility?

Treat hysterical, idiotic pieces like Thiessen's with the contempt they deserve.