Wikileaks Payback - Offensive and Defensive

[Peter Lemkin]

I'm not sure when that was written. I do know that wikileaks was working just fine the other week when I last checked but haven't been there for a few weeks. Daniel (and possibly co, not sure about them) is a bastard and it was allegedly he who sabotaged the file upload system when he flounced out the door. The rest of the Wikileaks team were busy dealing with the arrest and court cases, domain name disappearance and setting up mirrors, funding blockades by the banks and creditcard companies and the fall out from Daniels' alleged sabotage but they eventually got it back up. To act the way he did and when he did demonstrates he has no genuine interest in the wikileaks philosophy, transparency, whistleblower protection. He seems to be just a spoiled egotist who wanted more attention and threw a big dummy spit to get it.

Magda, it was my understanding for months too that Daniel was the villain in the piece. I guess the question was if the anonymous programmer who developed the untraceable system for submitting leaks also defected or was forced to - and if that has damaged Wikileaks input. I'm sure they have enough information for years of output still. Another question would be if someone like Berg just had different ideas, or was a Trojan horse to destroy from within..... Time will tell.