Friday, September 2, 2011

Wikileaks and the Selbstverzwergung


Wikileaks and the Selbstverzwergung


Wikileaks was a controversial but important idea: informants publish content on the debunking powerful without being persecuted. Now, the platform itself has done in a final mist of testosterone

Who does not know the figurehead of whistleblowing? The Australian Julian Assange was long regarded as the ruler of the unveiling of Wikileaks. Here came the really dangerous information is not from his pen. He guaranteed only for the safety and anonymity of informants. That did not always work. Partly it was because of his own person, last claimed his former German spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg in his book on Wikileaks.

He drew the consequences and wanted OpenLeaks with a better system on its feet. The long-time companion of Assange took some of the data it had stored during repair work on the Wikileaks server. They contained, among other things loudly Assange the system that should ensure the anonymity of those who stopped their data at Wikileaks. Coincidentally, on that hard drive but also a hidden folder that contained all of the dispatches of the U.S. embassies, we were allowed to read in part, in anonymous form already in various media partners of the busy Assange.

To this disk and its contents are relaxed a right cock-fighting, in the course of which did not include both men nasty accusations and personal insults. The public held its breath. Had one or the other observers for some time a sneaking suspicion that the Australians seem all the commotion around him not quite grown, was now slowly seems to be that it was not with the sovereign mastery of basic measures for protection of information and data security ordered for the best .

Because Assange had filed for a British journalist, the controversial data packet with all despatches of the American embassies in a hidden folder and pass it via a password list that needed to be supplemented only by one word. Once the web service provider of the Amazon and Paypal Wikileaks had withdrawn their services, the website was from the net. In no time the entire contents of the Wikileaks server have been copied a thousand times on so-called mirror - and thus the hidden folder. The Briton has published a book about Assange and share it even with the password, in the belief that it would no longer be valid. For several days, it is clear that it is very valid still. Other than a few months now, all dispatches with the real names of the informants publicly known and it is expected that quite a few now could no longer be completely healthy.

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