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Correio da Manhã, Portugal

WikiLeaks: A 'Catastrophe' for Cyber-Dependent States

 

"It’s worth highlighting the fragility of the states that have been hanged in cyberspace due to their communications."

 

By Medeiros Ferreira*

                                      

 

Translated By Brandi Miller

 

December 17, 2010

 

Portugal - Correio da Manhã - Original Article (Portuguese)

Founder, spokesperson and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks Julian Assange: Life on the Internet will never be the same.  

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While we're being entertained reading the wiretapping of the Internet connected with the tangled yarn unfolding from the mysterious WikiLeaks, perhaps it’s worth highlighting the fragility of the states that have been hanged in cyberspace due to their communications. The ordinary phrase “it's on the Internet” has taken on catastrophic proportions for cyber-dependent states.

 

It’s true that NATO's New Strategic Concept, approved days ago in Lisbon, dedicates two semicolons to cyber attacks, presenting them as “becoming more frequent, more organized and more costly" in the damage that they inflict. The case is even more serious and disturbing because it was the United States that let the genie out of the bottle and seduced the world to use the "network.”  

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Not even the deciphering by the British of the German Enigma code in World War II is comparable to what just happened to the U.S. Department of State. As for the ongoing revelations, we'll just have to wait for what the search engines reveal. So far, in terms of Portugal - even with out eyes shut tight - there have only been confirmations of what the good people of Portugal already suspected. Decisions makers were both canny and timid - just as George Kennan described them to Washington in 1943. The real sadness is that Portugal doesn't even have a national newspaper on the WikiLeaks list. Even [Foreign Minister] Luís Amado reacts only to El País

 

*Medeiros Ferreira is a professor of history at the New University of Lisbon

 

SEE ALSO ON THIS:

Le Figaro, France: And the Winner of the Bout Over WikiLeaks is … America

News, Switzerland: Assange the Latest Fall Guy for Crimes of World's Power Elite

Liberation, France: Who Rules? Hackers, the Press and Our Leaders - in that Order

Tal Cual, Venezuela: If Only WikiLeaks Would Expose President Chavez

Berliner Zeitung, Germany: Assault on Assange Betrays U.S. Founding Principles

El Universal, Mexico: WikiLeaks Revelations a Devastating Shock to Mexico

L'Orient Le Jour, Lebanon: WikiLeaks Makes 'Mockery' of 'U.S. Colossus'

Jornal de Negócios, Portugal: More than We Wanted to Know. Or Maybe Not!

DNA, France: The WikiLeaks Disclosures: A Journalist's Ambivalence

Global Times, China: WikiLeaks Poses Greater Risk to West's 'Enemies'

FAZ, Germany: Ahmadinejad's Chief-of-Staff Calls WikiLeaks Cables 'Lies'

Al-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Saudis Ask: Who Benefitted from WikiLeaks Disclosure?

Guardian, U.K.: Cables Portray Saudi Arabia as a Cash Machine for Terrorists

El País, Spain: Cables Expose Nuance of U.S. Displeasure with Spain Government

El País, Spain: Thanks to WikiLeaks' Disclosure, Classical Diplomacy is Dead

Guardian, U.K.: Saudi Arabia Urges U.S. Attack on Iran

Hurriyet, Turkey: Erdogan Needs 'Anger Management' Over U.S. Cables

Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia: WikiLeaks Reveals 'Feeling, Flawed' Human Beings

Frontier Post, Pakistan: WikiLeaks Reveals 'America's Dark Face' to the World

The Nation: WikiLeaks' Release: An Invaluable Exposure of American Hypocrisy

Buenos Aires Herald, Argentina: Without Hypocrisy, Global Ties Would Be Chaos

Kayhan, Iran: WikiLeaks Release a 'U.S. Plot to Sow Discord'

El Universal, Mexico: WikiLeaks and Mexico's Battle Against Drug Trafficking

Toronto Star, Canada: WikiLeaks Dump Reveals Seamy Side of Diplomacy

Guardian, U.K.: WikiLeaks Cables, Day 3: Summary of Today's Key Points

Guardian, U.K.: Leaked Cables Reveal China is 'Ready to Abandon' North Korea

Hurriyet, Turkey: American Cables Prove Turkish Claims on Missile Defense False

The Nation, Pakistan: WikiLeaks: An Invaluable Exposure of American Hypocrisy

Kayhan, Iran: WikiLeaks Revelations a 'U.S. Intelligence Operation': Ahmadinejad

Novosti, Russia: 'Russia Will be Guided by Actions, Not Leaked Secrets'

Guardian, U.K.: Job of Media is Not to Protect Powerful from Embarrassment

ANSA, Italy: WikiLeaks: 'No Wild Parties' Says Berlusconi

 

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