A convicted computer hacker who aquires classified government secrets of an allied state during wartime then releases them to the general public? If only we’d had a Julian Assange during WWII we could have revealed the D-day plans to the general public and thus the Germans. Wouldn’t that have been great? Power to the people dude!
NOTE: Oft-cited military historian Basil Liddell Hart, did in fact aquire the D-day plans and went around showing off his criticisms of them and presenting his own plans to show how clever he was. When questioned as to how he had aquired the plans for Operation Overlord, including the code names of the beaches, he claimed he had ‘figured it out himself’. This was only revealed a few years ago after the release of MI5 files.
What a clever man! I always wondered how someone could’ve expanded common sense and a basic military tactic into a 450 page book and called it his theory of ‘the indirect approach’. Did you know that attacking the front of the enemy is not as effective as attacking the flanks or rear? Who would’ve known?