Washington: Flaws in a US State Department’s information-sharing tool, created following the 9/11 terror attacks, led to unauthorised access to 250,000 diplomatic cables and their subsequent publication by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, a media report said today.
The database of the information-sharing tool called Net -Centric Diplomacy, so obscure that few diplomats had heard of it, contained the 250,000 State Department cables acquired by anti-secrecy activists, ‘The Washington Post’ reported.
The Net-Centric Diplomacy, launched in 2006, served an important mission: the rapid sharing of information that could help uncover threats against the United States.
“But like many bureaucratic inventions, it expanded beyond what its creators had imagined. It also contained risks that no one foresaw,” the Post said.
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