No matter how you feel about the WikiLeaking of the U.S. State Departmentdocuments, you have to admit this — the opportunity for riskexposure in our brave new increasingly connected world is growingby leaps and bounds.
And whether you consider WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a freedom-of-speech hero, aninternational spy who should be executed for treason, or justanother guy accused of sexual assault, you have to agreethat he's got a lot of people scared of him.
Like Bank of America, for one. Just last week, afterthe exiled Assange announced to Forbes that the target of his next documentdump would involve a “major American bank,” BOA'sstock took a hit. The latest news is that the financial giantis gearing up for whatever may come by setting up a “war room” todeal with the fallout — even though there has never been definitiveproof that they're the target of Assange's next attack.
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