When is exposure of e-mails not a good thing?
When it exposes to the world private information, and puts hundreds of thousands of lives in danger — for no reason.
We all agree that unrestrained, unlimited and uncensored use of the internet is a good thing. People may have differing views of Snowden’s act, and many admire his bravery and that of the people behind Wikileaks. By contrast, no one likes the idea that the credit-card information and data bases of Citibank and Capitol One, Target and Home Depot — and who knows how many other companies — were hacked. That can result in major money theft and worse, identity theft.
But such hacks usually don’t put lives in danger.
It took Wikileaks to do so.