Not interested. My original post was not about your completely-missing-the-point simile, but about the fact the the US government demonstrably sucked at IT security when they let the great unwashed have the kind of access they had to State Department cables.
IMO, the government does a reasonable job balancing how well it protects information and the costs of that protection. The current strategy will lead to leaks, but so did paper documents. Millions of people work for the government and many of them are going to try to cause problems.
So, if you are going to equate a single low impact release with “sucking” the go for it. But, I would point out unlike banks which often lose large numbers of SSN’s the government keeps the hole list for everyone and that has not gotten out. And (as my original post pointed out) sometimes when dealing with hard problems mitigation really is the best you can hope for.
