Flutterby™! : Idiots... Journalists... but I repeat myself.

Guardian admits culpability (and total idiocy) in the latest Wikileaks dust-up:

A statement from the Guardian said: "It's nonsense to suggest the Guardian's WikiLeaks book has compromised security in any way.

"Our book about WikiLeaks was published last February. It contained a password, but no details of the location of the files, and we were told it was a temporary password which would expire and be deleted in a matter of hours.

So: Journalist is given file that's encrypted with a password. The freakin' reason you encrypt a file is so that in case it gets intercepted, it can't be examined. It doesn't matter whether or not the file was deleted from the server in question, it could have been intercepted anywhere. Publishing the decryption key goes beyond stupidity into either gross idiocy, or malicious intent.