Wikileaks leaks unredacted cables

Well I guess it had to happen, the full text of the Wikileaks cables has leaked.

Wikileaks and the Guardian are trading claims as to who is at fault. The fact is that the situation does neither of them much credit for their security. The gist is that Wikileaks sent the Guardian a password to decrypt a file that was loaded onto a server for a short length of time and then removed.

The Guardian believed the password to be a temporary password unique to them and published it in their Wikileaks book. The same file with the same password had been shared over BitTorrent.

In a somewhat surreal twist, Wikileaks announced that it has "commenced pre-litigation action".

Strong cryptography does not mean strong security. The human element is almost always the weakest link.