And this is what I think is most dangerous. The couple of times that the subject of Wikileaks has come up, here and elsewhere in person, what I hear is people s

And this is what I think is most dangerous. The couple of times that the subject of Wikileaks has come up, here and elsewhere in person, what I hear is people saying that the endangerment of personnel (and/or operations) is enough to condemn the existence of Wikileaks. I acknowledge that Wikileaks has released information which endangers people, and I acknowledge that they're likely to do it again in the future. However, I think their existence as an international freelance watchdog group is far more valuable, especially given the tendency of various world governments to run operations that their citizens don't know about and might be far less likely to agree with if they did know about. Wikileaks has an obligation to reduce the risk to individuals when leaking sensitive information; however, even if they did nothing to protect the people implicated in leaks, I would still rather have Wikileaks than not.