I don't think it's really about convincing people of anything, RE Assange himself: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1955559 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?

I don't think it's really about convincing people of anything, RE Assange himself: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1955559 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1955559 It's about creating an atmosphere which makes the secrecy needed for conspiracy and in turn corruption, difficult or impossible to attain effectively and without doubt. This will cause the systems of government that rely on this to change themselves or become too susceptible to attack from other more transparent governments. I see no reason this won't happen, too: the doors have been opened to this kind of activity and it will only get worse for them. They can either become more authoritative and risk unrest, even more secretive (at a detriment to their ability to operate efficiently) or they will be forced to become more open.