From the article: >Manning altered not only the way we think about information security, authentication and confidentiality, but also about the grave damage po

From the article: >Manning altered not only the way we think about information security, authentication and confidentiality, but also about the grave damage posed by the insider threat. So it was a historic event to the military, and we still don't know how the repercussions of this will eventually play out. History isn't what people know about, it's what happens. I doubt you know about how an obscure British psychologist crippled the American psychological profession with doubt which had a major role in ushering in global neoliberalism, but it happened, and it affected nearly everybody. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment