Wikileaks - the lessons behind the drama

Published: Jan. 21, 2014, 12:38 p.m.

b'In early 2014, a contractor at credit-scoring company Korea Credit Bureau was arrested for loading up a USB key with personally identifiable information for some 20,000,000 people, about 40% of South Korea\'s population.\\n\\nShades of the Bradley/Chelsea Manning "Wikileaks" saga of three years earlier, in which decades of confidential US State Department cables were siphoned off.\\n\\nHere\'s a sadly-still-relevant podcast from the Wikileaks incident, looking at the question, "How could this have happened?"'