Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Assange Excolaboradores of stealing secret documents before leaving Wikileaks

Two days after the publication of the book Inside Wikileaks, signed by German Domscheit Daniel Berg, a former number two of the organization dedicated to the leak of secret information has leaked on the Internet one of the episodes recounted in its pages: Site excolaboradores published by the Australian Julian Assange took confidential documents before leaving to follow Domscheit-Berg in creating Openleaks, also born platform to facilitate the dissemination of classified documents.

After a few paragraphs of the new book Domscheit-Berg (who reads the subtitle My time in the most dangerous organization in the world) began circulating on the Internet in English translation, the author has decided to publish the real events on the web netzpolitik German. org. The Julian Assange excolaborador confesses in his book that he and other members of the organization took Wikileaks documents were considered as not sufficiently safe in the hands of the founder of the portal.

Berg Domscheit rule however, the use of this material for OpenLeaks. "We're going to return to Assange only when he shows that can be deposited safely and treat them responsibly and carefully," said in netzpolitik. org. Until now know that Wikileaks dissidents had taken the material of the organization: "We have not counted up the book because we were afraid the public debate that the information generated.

We were afraid of losing. But fully defend this decision because the defense of our sources is our main challenge, "said the author of the book on the web. The computer Domscheit-Berg was the most famous face behind WikiLeaks Assange himself, but left the organization after he criticized the excessive role of the Australians and some editorial decisions that were not considered "ethically correct." Style simultaneous publication of their own massive leaks Wikileaks Wikileaks Within the book is published simultaneously in 16 countries.

Publishers who manage the project say that the book tell the whole story "of the platform and reveal previously unknown details of the group's operations. The official presentation will take place in Berlin on 10 and will be published on 11. In Spain, the Castilian publication shall be borne by the publisher Roca de Barcelona.

Domscheit-Berg has already insisted on the differences between OpenLeaks and Wikileaks. The new platform will offer those interested in making public confidential documents "more control over how they disclose information." The new portal is seen as a mechanism for information management, that neither the stores, or decide who has access to it, nor if made public, thus ensuring greater transparency.

Unlike Wikileaks, in Openleaks, the information provider chooses which medium or organization wants to access it for a period of exclusivity. When the deadline passes without the media to publish the documents, they are made public to all organizations using the platform.

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