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WikiLeaks Publishes Cable Archive In Full
We recently discussed news that WikiLeaks had complained of a password leak which threatened the encryption of unredacted documents contained in the Cablegate archive. Now, reader solanum writes with this update:
"According to the Guardian, 'WikiLeaks has published its full archive of 251,000 secret US diplomatic cables, without redactions, potentially exposing thousands of individuals named in the documents to detention, harm or putting their lives in danger. The move has been strongly condemned by the five previous media partners – the Guardian, New York Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel and Le Monde – who have worked with WikiLeaks publishing carefully selected and redacted documents.' In the same article The Guardian gives further explanation of the controversy reported earlier, suggesting that Assange went against standard protocol in providing the master password to the newspaper."
I know it's an AC, but I'm replying anyway because this is a widely held belief in certain circles.
When media asked Assange about the risks to human lives because of their first releases, Assange stated that he didn't care and that their deaths served his purposes well. Assange is a sociopath and repeatedly on recorded saying people deserve to die for his cause and that its a just death.
Complete bullshit. I know exactly what story you're talking about: http://wikileaks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/12/07/which_is_it_mr_assange The deaths occurred because the Kenyan people decided to riot and face death of their own accord, a decision they based on information leaked on Wikileaks. These people actively chose to fight a tyrant. They weren't executed based on information in the leak.
In short, just the fuck up. You don't have a clue.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
Note that the link, is from the Guardian, from the same guy who deliberately published the document in the first place.
Guardian is after wikileaks, bigtime. It's incredibly damning of them.
Actually the whole archive was already available on piratebay, and we had the discussion about how bad it was to let that happen yesterday. The fact that the documents were available means that anyone who wanted to do anything unpleasant to any of the informants etc. in them was going to already. People who want that kind of information would have been the first to know. The only difference wikileaks is making by releasing it now is that the general public who dont know how to torrent can see them too.