Chasing WikiLeaks
The part about overclassification seems right on to me, but I'm not sure the Napster comparison rings true. Sure, there'll be copycat sites, but will they be able to attract the same community of leakers that WikiLeaks does? Will they be able to filter out misinformation deliberately leaked by the government to poison the well? Remember that Napster provided a medium to share music that was already mass media. Getting the stuff to begin with was never a problem. With classified material, it is getting the stuff to share that's the hard part.
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