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"The creatures outside looked pig to man, and man a pig and pig to man again; but already it was impossible to tell which is which. "- George Orwell, animal farm
"Leck BEI Wikileaks". Title in the German News weekly Der Freitag, described a paradox with Teutonic efficiency: leakage in Wikileaks ".
In history, published on Friday, the editor of Steffen Kraft claims found on the Internet "password protected file csv" containing 1.73 GB cache completely unedited diplomatic cables originating from Wikileaks. According to Kraft password file is also easy to find.
The same day, a large number of cables Wikileaks dumped online and asked its followers to help sift through them. Copies of the files were available to news organizations as the guardian, the New York Times and Reuters months, but this is the first time when documents are made available to the public. The liberation came, said Chief leaks Julian Assange, because the MEDIA lost interest in diplomatic revelation yet unreported. (A cynic might withdraw this Assange — who remains under house arrest in Britain pending extradition on charges of sexual assault is concerned that the media too have lost interest in them.)
But paper Der Freitag are not official Wikileaks files, which are partially redacted to remove the names of sensitive sources. Rather, it contains thousands of unedited pages with ' informer named or otherwise identified "for" and "alleged intelligence agents" from Israel, Jordan, Iran and Afghanistan.
It is important to emphasize that der Freitag unpublished proof, even the unedited file. But according to Kraft found many documents that have previously been published in the form of censorship. And to make it clear, Der Freitag not only some rogue German paper: they have a syndication deal with guardian (erst-while partner Wikileaks) makes it unlikely they could invent a story out of whole cloth. (Update: Der Spiegel has confirmed the existence of the file — see below for more.)
Thus if unreadacted files are found their way online, what are we to make of it? Kraft makes it clear that these files may have been leaked Assanage Arch nemesis (and former colleague), Daniel Domscheit Berg OpenLeaks. Earlier this week, he claimed to have destroyed thousands of unpublished documents before leaving Wikileaks, and he made no secret of his hatred of his old buddy (I wrote earlier about his memoirs frothy anti Assange). Of course, along with staff at the guardian, the New York Times and Wikileaks, a growing number of partners, current and former mainstream media Domscheit-Berg is a possible suspect.
In truth, almost doesn't matter who is responsible: the possible release of unedited cables is inevitable. Wikileaks message — and the cult of an immoral diversion for lulz, which came as a result, has always been one of the callous disregard for the human "free information". From Assange's comments highlighted the Guardian journalists that "if [whistleblower] get killed, they got it coming to them. They deserve it. "LulSec and anonymous willingness to publish personal data of any even tangentially related to their" enemies "that we see again and again to the mass of the leak is ignoring sociopath for natural persons, in conjunction with the Hollywood serial killer hunger for attention. Earlier, later, for your attention to some politically incorrect for the lulz, someone was bound to get and leakage of primary documents.
Because public attention from Wikileaks Libya or hurricane Irene or Lady Gaga appearing in the Simpsons, leak, should resort to riskier and riskier behavior back to the headlines. And so it would be woefully small wonder if both sides Wikileaks Openleaks skirmish gladly gave up the odd Afghan tribes or Iranian civil servant to score cheap points over their rival.
[Update: Der Spiegel, another former partner of Wikileaks, confirmed that the leak is legitimate, the right blames the split between Assange and Domscheit Berg.]
Der Freitag title notwithstanding, there is even more terrifying irony in all this; and see him, you have to turn back to the beginning of the history of Wikileaks. In 2010, Julian Assange, invited the guardian David Lee in his hotel room, watch the video of an American helicopter supposedly mowing down Reuters journalist. The file name "Collateral murder", and public outrage seeing blatant disregard US forces innocent lives done Wikileaks — and Assange is a household name. If der Freitag report is accurate, the words "Wikileaks" and "Collateral murder" could be was going to make a resurgence in headlines. Only this time it won't be US military blood on their hands, but the actual leak.
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