[alokdhari]

I very much agree with you. It should be up to the person who has the information to decide whether it should be made public or not. Morally speaking, it could cause outage and even war, who knows.. but it should be up to that person to decide. Monetary incentives dilute the idea of moral responsibility and also gives some people an opportunity to shout : "Oh! They did it for the money". What next .. will the information be put on auction !!

[vasilipupkin]

it's still up to the person though. It's an incentive not an imperative.

[richmarr]

I wouldn't even call it an incentive, it's more the balancing out of a strong negative incentive that already exists.

Considering that Wikileaks exists to make conspiracies harder/smaller I think this totally fits with their purpose. The only question being why it applies to this, but not to other leaks.