WikiLeaks Insiders Resign · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @12:13AM from the can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.

Americano writes "Wired reports that at least six WikiLeaks insiders, including Daniel Domscheit-Berg, WikiLeaks' spokesman in Germany, have resigned in the past few weeks. Those who have spoken with Wired cite differences and disputes with Julian Assange, and his autocratic leadership style, as the motivation for their departure. From the article: 'Key members of WikiLeaks were angered to learn last month that Assange had secretly provided media outlets with embargoed access to the vast database, under an arrangement similar to the one WikiLeaks made with three newspapers that released documents from the Afghanistan war in July. WikiLeaks is set to release the Iraq trove on Oct. 18, according to ex-staffers — far too early, in the view of some of them, to properly redact the names of US collaborators and informants in Iraq.'"

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Re:how is wikileaks safer than 4chan? by nedlohs · 2010-09-28 02:10 · Score: 4, Interesting

Because they hopefully some expertise whereas the random guy who wants to leak something probably hasn't even heard any of the terms "proxy chain", "tor", or "4chan".
Because wikileaks claims to do some checking which will give the leak more weight than some random post to 4chan.
Because wikileaks has media contacts and can push the leaked data out to them, which would be very hard for most people to do anonymously.