Flutterby™! : Still unclear on the concept

Reuters: Manning undid part of secret U.S. intelligence sharing: testimony.

Tightening access to the system undid the very benefits the system was meant to provide, according to Susan Swart, a former U.S. State Department official who was responsible for the movement of diplomatic cables when they were leaked and published by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks in 2010.

To which I have two immediate knee-jerk reactions:

• So I guess we should be thanking the NSA for demonstrating to us why we should be using more end-to-end encryption and be less trusting the manufacturers of our hardware and software.
• The problem that Manning was exposing was that most of the secrecy was split between covering up criminal behavior and claiming as secret things that should never have been secret in the first place.