Wikileaks has mainly been condemned for the large amount of hacking that they are known for doing. (Again, if you don't know what hacking is, THIS website explains all.) It is a widely known fact that hacking is mostly illegal. Hacking can be done by anyone that learns the skill. Whether this be the government, school pupils, normal adults or journalists. Yes, journalists have been known to do some hacking. And no hacking story made by journalists has been in the public eye more then the Milly Dowler Story. Dowler went missing back in March 2002 and was subsequently murdered. Her mobile phone was hacked by journalists at former newspaper, News of the World in order to obtain news stories.
When this was published in the public eye, there was a huge outcry from the British public which eventually led to the closure of the newspaper.
If News of the World can get shut down for hacking, why has there been nothing done about wikileaks?
Bradley Manning is still very much in the public eye and if you type his named into google over 70 million results come up. In fact, a post was made on him just one hour ago (29/04/13, 18:25 GMT).
This just goes to show how society is still very much interested in this wikileaks story. It does seem that if hacking, or leaking information as Manning did, is done with the right deliberateness it can be acknowledged.
As well as this, the fact that hacking was made on a murder victims mobile phone for no reason other then to obtain breaking news is disgusting and shocking. However it does seem that Leveson inquiry has made sure that this is extremely unlikely to ever happen again.
Whether or not hacking is acceptable will always be down to the motives of the hacker, as well as the principles of society at that moment in time.
http://whatishacking.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Milly_Dowler
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22278947
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