Nothing wrong with giving money to a site that exists to promote freedom of the press. But now one question becomes whether organizations that got pwned by Wikileaks will start harassing the site's donors, if only to shut off the money spigot.

The bigger question is, how can you trust Wikileaks to protect whistle-blowers' identities when it can't protect its own donors? Wikileaks claims it's better at protecting the sources of its information, even if it's not so hot at protecting the sources of its funding. In a comment posted on , organization spokesdude Jay Lim says:

"...while definitely not good form, the mistake was a missed shortcut made by one of our admin people and is not related to the efforts or systems involved in source protection."

If I'm someone who could lose my job because I posted secret information to Wikileaks, I would find this statement cold comfort.

Really, Wikileaks was hosed regardless of what it decided to do; if your whole schtick is exposing the unvarnished unredacted truth, you can't suddenly start making exceptions for yourself. But this dumb mistake is likely to cost it contributions, both monetary and otherwise.