[Arab News, Saudi Arabia]
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)
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:
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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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