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28 New Persp. Q. 2 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/nwpsp28 and id is 1 raw text is: Welcome to the Geo-Information Age Welcome to the geo-information age. Along with cyberprobes and computer worms like Stuxnet, which at least temporarily disabled Iran's centrifuges without a missile being fired or a bomb dropped, Wikileaks is redefining national security as we've known it. As with personal privacy, the new challenge is to keep secrets in and probes or viruses out (or, in the case of national security, to deploy them as defensive weapons). As with privacy, the issue is which limits to erase and where to draw boundaries. The most recent Wikileaks cache is not your father's Pentagon Papers. Like a neu- tron bomb of the Internet era, it has indiscriminately destroyed good diplomacy and duplicity alike across a broad spectrum of political cultures. The sting of this latest act of extreme glasnost has been felt from thin-skinned autocracies such as China and Russia to the tabloid democracy of America already inured to the regular appearance of private sex tapes as a M E N T steppingstone to celebrity status. Kim Kardashian, meet Julian Assange. The diplomatic revelations also hit at the moment controversy swirls around Facebook for, as some charge, peddling private information under the mantle of social networking. And there are the Wikileak effects, good and bad, on Pakistan's shaky civilian gov- ernment, on cynical Arab monarchs who say one thing to the street and another in the palace parlor, on Iranian theocrats anxiously swatting away Green Movement tweets and on liberalizing Turkish Islamists just warily dipping their toes in the roil- ing waters of media freedom. How to sort it all out? It would seem most sensible to derive standards deduc- tively from cases at hand instead of applying old rules to novel conditions. The most delicious Wikileak document exposed a member of the Chinese Politburo plotting to shut down Google searches in China in order, allegedly, to stem unflattering rumors about the business dealings of his princeling progeny from reach- ing the public. Exposing the Politburo actions seems a good use of transparency-just I ' * WINTER 2011 COM

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