OpenLeaks Founder 'Crippled' WikiLeaks

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, 2011 @06:08AM from the cutthroat-competition dept.

SETIGuy writes "Former WikiLeaks programmer Daniel Domscheit-Berg sabotaged WikiLeaks in a manner that threatens the anonymity of leakers, according to a WikiLeaks spokesperson. Since leaving WikiLeaks, Domschiet-Berg has become one of the cofounders of OpenLeaks. This raises the question: if you had material to leak, would you trust it to someone who has already jeopardized the anonymity of leakers at a site where he worked?" Domscheit-Berg denies claims by WikiLeaks that he damaged the organization or 'stole' material, but did say he took roughly 300,000 documents with him when he left. An anonymous reader notes related news that WikiLeaks is attempting to get around donation blocks by selling a line of T-shirts.

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Re:Wikileaks leaks... by DNS-and-BIND · 2011-02-11 08:00 · Score: 1, Redundant

So, an organization dedicated to leaking information was in possession of certain information that it preferred to keep secret. Then, someone leaked the info.
I'm pretty sure this is the definition of literary irony. It certainly contains the classical elements of comeuppance.

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