OpenLeaks Founder 'Crippled' WikiLeaks 278
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.
Drama Queens Run Our World (Score:5, Interesting)
Hell, the only folk who seem to act rationally when it comes to this issue are the folks in the Middle East that read a few cables relevant to their lives and said, "Fuck it, it's time to change things for the better!"
I mean, seriously, look at this shitfest. This is something straight out of Freddy Prinze Junior movie, complete with all of the hyperbolic, dramatic characters. And yet, these are the people delivering our news, getting voted into the leadership roles of our society, and generally steering the direction this world moves in.
What The Fuck? Why do we tolerate this kind of bullshit? Maybe I am just clinging to a pipe dream, hoping to one day see our world led by people with some god damned sense and humility, but this has gotten ridiculous.
I don't know. Maybe there are some other countries out there where these issues are less glaring (or nonexistant?), but here in the States, I am afraid we've turned world politics into a fucking high school based reality T.V. show. It makes me nauseous. Maybe we really should just vote the retard beauty queen Sarah Palin into office already and get it all over with.
Re:fail (Score:1, Interesting)
Dumbshit-Borg is an "asset", bought-out by corporate proxies, for the TLA's that want this crushed.
His splitting "OpenLeaks" is pure playbook from the US Gov plan to destroy WikiLeaks:
US Intelligence Planned to Destroy Wikileaks [slashdot.org] What! Past-tense?
CIA, State Department Apparently Acting on Plan to Destroy Wikileaks [huffingtonpost.com]
The guy is a stooge, or a pawn. He serves the purposes of State and Corporate collusion in secrecy, to manage their globalist Empire.
OpenLeaks sucks (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Bitter from competition? (Score:4, Interesting)
I suspect it's less about competition and more about Domscheit-Berg being a deep-cover plant.
All I can say is there is no fucking way I would ever submit any secret government documents to OpenLeaks. That site smells way too much like honey.
Disinformation Campaigns (Score:3, Interesting)
Fast forward six months after those emails, and we have: Wikileaks insiders fighting against each other, splitting off due to distrust, and spreading information about a compromised safe upload system, and spreading various rumors and personal attacks against the frontman for the group.
Now, those rumors may or may not be true, but they certainly are an amazing coincidence considering the the leaked emails from HBGary. I'd personally wager that 99% of news stories about wikileaks have some level of disinformation involved to try to negate the impact on existing power structures. They have after all, decided to take on every government and multinational corporation in the world.
Res ipsa loquitur