“how to stop leaks” document leaked

There’s a website called Wikileaks:

Wikileaks is an organization to protect internal dissidents, whistleblowers, journalists and bloggers who face legal or other threats related to publishing. Our primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we are of assistance to people of all nations who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact. We have received over 1.2 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources.
We believe that transparency in government activities leads to reduced corruption, better government and stronger democracies.

You can find the whole description here.

Now, a few days ago Wikileaks published a document written by the British Ministry of Defence giving advice on how to stop documents leaking onto the internet.

The Telegraph reports:

The Defence Manual of Security is intended to help MoD, armed forces and intelligence personnel maintain information security in the face of hackers, journalists, foreign spies and others. But the 2,400-page restricted document has found its way on to Wikileaks.
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As Wikileaks notes, it is the document that is used as justification for the monitoring of certain websites, including Wikileaks itself. Under the section “Leaks of Official Information”, it says:
“Leaks usually take the form of reports in the public media which appear to involve the unauthorised disclosure of official information (whether protectively marked or not) that causes political harm or embarrassment to either the UK Government or the Department concerned [...] The threat [of leakage] is less likely to arise from positive acts of counter-espionage, than from leakage of information through disaffected members of staff, or as a result of the attentions of an investigative journalist, or simply by accident or carelessness.”
The document is particularly keen to avoid the attentions of journalists, noting them as “threats” alongside foreign intelligence services, criminals, terrorist groups and disaffected staff.
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Wikileaks was also behind the memorable leaks of the British National Party membership list, the operating procedures at Guantanamo Bay and the secret workings of the Church of Scientology.

Hilarious.