There's Been a Leak At WikiLeaks

adeelarshad82 writes "German paper Der Freitag claims it has uncovered a batch of online unredacted diplomatic cables that came from WikiLeaks. Editor Steffen Kraft said he found a 'password protected csv file' that contained a 1.73GB cache of diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks. Its pages contained 'named or otherwise identifiable "informers" and "suspected intelligence agents" from Israel, Jordan, Iran, and Afghanistan.'"

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Yawn

[drobety]

Der Freitag is associated with Daniel Domscheit-Berg (DDB) and the OpenLeaks project. I find it curious that Der Freitag "discovered the file on the internet" right when DDB has been making an ass of himself by deleting thousands of documents leaked by whistleblowers, and at a notable point of his campaign to discredit Wikileaks.

Re:Yawn

[dkleinsc]

There's another option:
3. He's an intelligence agent for either a government or business assigned to spy on Wikileaks, and then given the order to discredit them and take them out of commission without creating any martyrs. As a side effect, he might be setting up Openleaks to be a honeypot making it nice and easy to catch those trying to leak to the public.

Logic Fail

[igreaterthanu]

Manning didn't get away with treason, why should Scooter Libby?

Re:WikiLeaks is great and all, but naming names?

[Ihmhi]

WikiLeaks came under fire for refusing to redact names of civilian volunteers in Iraq and Afghanistan, leading to the volunteers getting death threats. Assange told a reporter that if people want names redacted, they'd have to pay for it.

You don't see Amnesty International leak civilian names while exposing tyranny and human rights violations around the globe.

Stop this shit.

Only flat-out fucking retards will believe you. Wikileaks has said again and again that they filter everything through a "no-harm" policy by removing any identifying features prior to release. They explicitly do everything they can to prevent harm.

Loads of people bring up the claim that they name names with regards to informants or undercover folks, but I've yet to see legitimate shit on the Wikileaks site that is exactly like that.

Disinformation aside, if there are any such examples of an informant being outed in such a manner (and subsequently receiving threats), I'd like to see them. I don't mind being proven wrong (in fact, it's rather refreshing - that's how we meatbags learn), but every time Wikileaks come up on Slashdot or anywhere else we have half-assed attempts to discredit them without putting out any actual evidence from reputable sources.