Columbia University students have been warned that commenting on WikiLeaks could harm their job prospects, according to The Wall Street Journal.
An e-mail from the university's Office of Career Services urged students to refrain from posting links to WikiLeaks or commenting on it on sites like Facebook or Twitter if they're planning to apply for jobs with the federal government.
The latest WikiLeaks revelations are of particular concern to the US government. The Guardian reported Tuesday that US cables revealed that NATO has developed plans to protect Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from potential Russian threats, though the "contingency" plans had been kept secret to avoid "unnecessary tensions" with Moscow. And on Sunday, WikiLeaks released a February 2009 cable that listed "critical infrastructure" around the globe that "if destroyed, disrupted or exploited, would likely have an immediate and deleterious effect on the United States." The Christian Science Monitor reports that some have called the list of sites a "menu for terrorists," though others note that the sites' importance is largely already public knowledge.