If nothing else this uproar is a wake-up call for a lot of people:

- Governments who keep so many secrets they can’t manage them.

- “Reputable” journalists who are far too comfortable with government and corporate secrecy.

- A security apparatus so inept it entrusts secret diplomatic cables to a private who had been busted for assaulting another soldier.

- The vast number of conspiracy buffs and believers who are disappointed not to find any good stuff on UFOs, HAARP, chemtrails, or fake Moon landings in the documents. They can either reinforce their paranoid worldview by claiming this makes wikileaks just another part of the great cover-up, or they can start to question that worldview completely.