#domscheit-berg

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The Fifth Estate Trailer

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The Internet whistle-blowing platform WikiLeaks made public Friday for the first time all of the about 250,000 US diplomatic cables it had acquired in their original and uncensored state.

...On Friday, media partners who worked together with WikiLeaks in the past, including SPIEGEL, the Guardian, the New York Times and El Pais, issued a joint statement condemning the decision to release the raw documents...

"We cannot defend the needless publication of the complete data -- indeed, we are united in condemning it."

"Today's decision to publish by Julian Assange was his, and his alone."

On Twitter and its website, WikiLeaks criticized former colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg for connecting the password with a file that was accidentally made accessible to the public, and blamed David Leigh, a journalist for the British newspaper theGuardian, for publishing the password.  >continue<

A Dispatch Disaster in Six Acts  |  All Cables Made Available

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A WikiLeaks computer file that allows anyone to read every word of 251,287 leaked United States diplomatic cables by typing a password made public six months ago was posted online by mistake last year, potentially endangering human rights activists and other sources who spoke to American officials in confidence.

As  Spiegel Online reports, the password-protected file with the unredacted cables was made available because of “a chain of careless mistakes, coincidences, indiscretions and confusion” that followed the splintering of the antisecrecy organization into rival factions over the past year.  >continue<

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Chronik des Untergangs von WikiLeaks - auch wenn noch ein paar Akte fehlen...

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A dangerous, malicious, conman.

Julian Assange on Daniel Domscheit-Berg