Wikileaks founders: "We have kept all the promises"

Wikileaks founders: "We have kept all the promises"

Julian Assange, founder of the unveiling Wikileaks has established in a video interview on the Media Week Berlin-Brandenburg, the flight forward with the release of the unedited U.S. embassy dispatches. "It was a race between the bad and the good guys," said the native Australian on Tuesday. "For us it was there needed to be on the side of good." After the publication of the password to decrypt the material by a journalist from the Guardian two months ago and according to reports on the reference in the Friday in August was a "dangerous gap" exists. As had "any intelligence" the full package, including the already encrypted file-sharing in the rounds, held in his hands. The people who are mentioned in the news reports was, however, the material is generally still not able to read the full text.


Assange during video transfer
Image: Stefan Krempl "We could not do anything differently in retrospect," Assange defended the publication of hundreds of thousands of dispatches. Wikileaks have kept their promise. "We protect our sources, will publish everything in order to achieve an effect, and we will censor anything once it's out." In November, the risk existed that can be published in the face of U.S. demands to destroy the material, nothing would. After the intermediate step of publishing some blackened news releases they would now study journalists and other interested parties around the world. Assange was confident that "this will change much."

Maybe it was wrong to cooperate with the Guardian, admitted Assange. Generally, it is risky to cooperate with other organizations. It is however necessary to take the risks. Such as electoral fraud in Kenya, corruption and illegal executions of countless places had been uncovered in Iraq. It was never anything wrong so far published or physical damage caused. Had also become known now solely the sources - had divulged information to personnel in U.S. embassies - mostly illegally.

"Throughout the world there are professional political conspiracies," said Assange, who sees himself as a publisher with its publications of the people about the true workings of the world and its power structures. Wikileaks would presumably with the crushing of the Prague Spring has become more difficult, speculated Assange. That it the reactions of the traditional powers confirmed on the "Cable Gate": He had been stuck due to a Swedish extradition request because of an allegation of sexual assault under house arrest, Visa, MasterCard and other financial institutions have an "embargo" was issued against Wikileaks, "the us 90 percent of our support has tasted. "

The demand for other big releases is further said Assange, interaction with over 90 media organizations in 50 countries continued to run well. Only the co-operation with the Guardian and the New York Times, which had been supplied to all of this collusion with documents that they had finished.

Work on a new interface for the online entry of information run for six months. On the question of reopening the function itself was covered Assange. After the "sabotage" in the past year, been in the "stolen" from him, including code written and archive sections, were first to publish all dispatches had been a priority. The earlier by his compatriot Daniel Domscheit-Mountain portal targeted OpenLeaks he described as "dark business", which was not yet ready. It got its status thus far only, "that they have attacked us," the chief said Wikileaks to war with Domscheit Rose Hill.