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WikiLeaks Screws Up and Endangers Its Sources

WikiLeaks Screws Up and Endangers Its Sources Created by MG1 on Aug 31, 2011

Supporters of the WikiLeaks organization unwittingly released unedited versions of U.S. displomatic cables onto the Internet, potentially putting several lives at risk of retaliation. These are the same cables that were made public in November 2010, except the originals were edited to protect the names and identities of informants.
According to German website Spiegel Online, the screw up is the result of an ongoing dispute between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and former German spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Before going public with the cables in November 2010, Assange stored the information in a password protected file buried in a WikiLeaks server and shared the password with an extern... »read more

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