> Given Wikileaks et al have recently shown quite how poor governments are at keeping secrets How do you come to the conclusion that governments are poor at ke

> Given Wikileaks et al have recently shown quite how poor governments are at keeping secrets How do you come to the conclusion that governments are poor at keeping secrets? There have been relatively few leaks of consequence, and governments have done a great job of making an example of the people doing the leaking. Manning is in prison, Snowden is in exile, Assange is locked up in the Ecuadorian embassy. Serious journalists like Greenwald have to base themselves in third-world countries. So while governments are perhaps mediocre at protecting data, they can certainly go after anybody who places it in the public domain, and this fear effect is a much stronger deterrent than anything else they could do.