Why is that?
Maybe guys with super-Crays can eventually break encryption codes, but I doubt the Wikileaks folks can. If they could you would also be seeing all sorts of corporate data floating around, but you don't.
My guess is that if I sent you a simply encrypted file of two different letters from Thomas Jefferson to someone else (so you would know what you were looking for) that you wouldn't be able to tell me within a year what those letters were.
ML/NJ
The problem is not that digital information is inherently unsafe, it’s that the people with access to that information are inherently unsafe.
This has, of course, always been true. But 25 (copiers) or 50 (camera) years ago the guy who passed the information to wikileaks would have been able to get only a few documents out at most, not hundreds of thousands of pages.
Digital format merely makes it multiple orders of magnitude easier to copy and send information. Some small percentage of those with access will choose to do so. I know of no way to 100% eliminate the chance of somebody with access making such a choice.
It’s the same as with guns. Guns don’t kil people, people do. But guns make doing so much easier.