Unintended Consequences of Wikileaks Email Dumps: Harder to Fight

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"Want to Know Julian Assange’s Endgame? He Told You a Decade Ago"
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/want-know-julian-assanges-endgame-told-decade-ago/
>“The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an increase in cognitive ‘secrecy tax’) and consequent system-wide cognitive decline resulting in decreased ability to hold onto power as the environment demands adaptation.”

however, when one confuses "secretive" for "unjust" you forget that sometimes the powers that be are unjust and the people fighting for justice are the ones who have to be secretive.

WikiLeaks Dump Method: Sociologist Says Not All Leaked Passes Public Interest Test
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/22/498954190/wikileaks-dump-method-destroys-privacy-sociologist-says-not-all-leaked-pass-publ
>there's a lot of personal information that is being exposed. What this does - and this is what scares me - is that this method is going to be used in the future to any political organization - dissident organizations - that are trying to challenge power. And what they're going to end up seeing is that their personal information is going to be dumped for the world.
>It looks like the method that started as a way to bring more challenge to secretive elites is actually now evolving into a method that is going to be very destructive to the ecology of dissent.