The Huffington Post is an online news site that collects news stories from various websites and sources. \u00a0The excerpt was posted because it is explaining what is to come from WikiLeaks. \u00a0Also, Julian Assange has multiple demonstrations a few days prior to the posting of the excerpt. \u00a0Micah Sifry is an author of a book about WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency. \u00a0Therefore, he is qualified to write about this subject because he has done a lot of research on WikiLeaks and believes that the transparency movement is going to stay for a while. \u00a0WikiLeaks is a wiki meaning that anyone can add information to the website. \u00a0It also does not require you to have an identity when posting information. \u00a0This is one of WikiLeaks’ main issue, having vital information being shared, but not knowing where or who it came from. \u00a0Sifry’s main point is that hiding information is useless. \u00a0In this day and age almost every adult carries the internet in their pocket or in their bag exposing them to information. \u00a0However, it also makes them vulnerable. \u00a0He also makes some going points on credibility. \u00a0The internet allows you to adopt multiple identities, therefore making it hard to gain real credibility. \u00a0I think he makes a very convincing point on what transparency is and how Assange used it with WikiLeaks. \u00a0I like the quote that Sifry included from Bruce Scheiner “Secrets are only as secure as the least trusted person who knows them.” \u00a0This is a really good point, and it is true that when a lot of people know a secret, it is more likely for it to get exposed, and when the US government can’t keep track of how many people know certain secrets, the possibility of it surfacing to the public is inevitable.<\/p>\n
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