Wikileaks case puts focus on digital security challenges

Washington (AFP) July 26, 2010 The massive release of secret Pentagon documents by Wikileaks highlights the security challenges of the digital age, when gigabytes of stolen data can be shared in one click, analysts said Monday. "I think about this in relationship to the Pentagon Papers," said James Lewis, a cybersecurity

expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), of the 1971 leak of Pentagon files about the Vietnam War.
"The difference with the Pentagon Papers is that Daniel Ellsberg took a huge sheaf of paper and gave it to a reporter," Lewis told AFP. "Now you can take even more documents and give them to the whole world."
Wikileaks has not identified the source of the classified documents it obtained but suspicion has fallen on Bradley Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst who is currently being held in a military jail in Kuwait.http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Wikileaks_case_puts_focus_on_digital_security_challenges_999.html

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