Years ago, I read a science fiction story that incorporated the concept of a Secrets Registry. They knew where all the bodies were buried and the secrets filed, but they wouldn't tell anyone -- would, in fact, work to keep them secret -- unless there was good reason for the word to get out. Then they'd tell.
Might be impractical in practice, but its better than WikiLeaks, which, to me, is a tool that foments treason, at the most, and criminal mischief, at the least. Secrets exist for many reasons, some of them ignoble, and things which should come out sometimes never do -- but its not the call of a band of vigilantes.
I seriously hope we have cyber-warriors busting on them.
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