US strategy to prevent leaks is leaked
The US government's document on how to get various government agencies to prevent future leaks has been leaked to MSNBC. It does not get any more ironic than that. The Obama administration is telling federal agencies to take aggressive steps to prevent further leaks. These steps include figuring out which employees might be most inclined to leak classified documents, by using psychiatrists and sociologists to assess their trustworthiness. Government agencies would also require employees report any contacts with members of the news media they may have.
http://www.techspot.com/news/41889-leaked-us-government-strategy-to-prevent-leaks.html
You cannot un-invent WikiLeaks
We are strongly of the view that things should be published. Where you are open things will not be WikiLeaked. Whatever view you take about WikiLeaks -- right or wrong -- it means that things will now get out. It has changed things. Government and authorities need to factor it in. Be more proactive, publishing more stuff, because quite a lot of this is only exciting because we did not know it. You cannot un-invent WikiLeaks. It is part of the phenomenon of the online, empowered citizen. These are facts that are not going to go away, and government and authorities need to wise up. One response is that they will clam up and not write anything down, which is nonsense, you cannot run an organisation that way. The other is to be even more open. The best form of defence is transparency.
Open Source EU
EU Internet Commissioner Neelie Kroes warns that governments can accidentally lock themselves into one company's software for decades by setting it as a standard for their technology systems. Ms Kroes, in her previous post as EU antitrust chief, fined Microsoft hundreds of millions of euros in a lengthy row over the tying of a Microsoft's Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system.She now wants to draw up guidelines for European governments to require other software, especially programmes based on open source code that is freely shared between developers.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/sns-ap-eu-eu-open-software,0,5937710.story
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