Polish Spy List on the Web

Remeber the plot of the first Mission: Impossible movie? A dirty spy leaks the official "NOC list" for America online? (NOC stands for Non-Official Cover - the secret names that American spys use when working abroad undercover.) Well, according to Slashdot this has actually happened to Poland!

A list of 240,000 names of Polish secret agents, informers, secret service employees, and victims of persecution was leaked on the internet in the last days and became an instant hit. The search for "lista Wildsteina" (Wildstein's list) sky-rocketed to 300,000 per day in the second most popular search engine in Poland (onet.pl) outperforming "sex" (former top query) by more than 30 times. The list appeared on many web sites, p2p networks, and was made into a searchable database.

While Poland is likely to have fewer agents in the field than America, this is no less likely to get a whole lot of people killed.