Well, Assange did try to drive home the importance of protecting the password. He wrote down most of it and made Leigh memorize the rest, creating a "something

Well, Assange did try to drive home the importance of protecting the password. He wrote down most of it and made Leigh memorize the rest, creating a "something you have" factor and a separate "something you know" factor. Assange didn't want to give them access to the cables at all, but relented when they demanded it in negotiations with him. He then made them sign a contract to protect the information [1]. Clearly this wasn't enough though. [1] http://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/Guardian_Letter_for_Package_3.pdf http://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/Guardian_Letter_for_Package_3.p...