Inside Wikileaks. My Time With Julian Assange At The Worlds Most Dangerous Website

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C.r.o.w.n, 2011. - 232с.
В своей книге Daniel Domscheit-Berg, бывший пресс-секретарь WikiLeaks, знакомит с никогда раннее не раскрывавшимися подробностями о внутренней работе организации, которая поразила страхом правительства и бизнес-организаций по всему миру и побудило Пентагон созвать целевую группу в 120 человек для нейтрализации скандальных публикаций.
Under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, Domscheit-Berg was the effective № 2 at WikiLeaks and the organizations most public face, after Julian Assange. In this book, he reveals the evolution, finances, and inner tensions of the whistleblower organization, beginning with his first meeting with Assange in December 2007. He also describes what led to his September 2010 withdrawal from WikiLeaks, including his disenchantment with the organizations lack of transparency, its abandonment of political neutrality, and Assanges increasing concentration of power. What has been made public so far about WikiLeaks is only a small fraction of the truth. With Domscheit-Bergs insider knowledge, he is uniquely able to tell the full story. A computer scientist who worked in IT security prior to devoting himself full-time to WikiLeaks, he remains committed to freedom of information on the Internet. Today he is working on a more transparent secret-sharing website called OpenLeaks, developed by former WikiLeaks people, to be launched in early 2011.About the AuthorDANIEL DOMSCHEIT-BERG, under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, was the effective No. 2 at Wikileaks and the organizations spokesman and most public face after Julian Assange. A computer scientist who worked primarily in IT security for several multinational companies prior to devoting himself full-time to Wikileaks, he remains committed to freedom of information and transparency on the internet. He is currently working on a more transparent secret-sharing website calledOpenLeaks, developed by former WikiLeaks people, to be launched in 2011.

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flight these days will probably use the technology that I developed. I earned around 50,000 euros a year—too little for what I was doing, but I didn't care. I was active in the open source community. I worked longer hours than the required forty a week and was always experimenting with new solutions. What I did was generally appreciated within the company. My coworkers and I constantly thought up the sort of pranks that technically gifted people use to keep up their spirits in companies like ours. To protest the quality of the coffee, we manipulated the menus of the supposedly economical coffee machines so that they needed constant maintenance. I would regularly send e-mails to a shorttempered colleague from an address on the company server called [email protected] I enjoyed watching him becoming ever more enraged and would send him follow-up e-mails with statements like "God says you shouldn't get so excited." I lived nearby in the small city of Wiesbaden, and my girlfriend at the time, a very beautiful young woman, worked as a secretary for the company. All in all, I was content with, but hardly euphoric about, my life. My days were full and varied, but there was room for something more. After our falling-out, Julian reportedly said that I would have been nothing without WikiLeaks—that I only got involved with WL because I had nothing better to do with my life. He was right. WL is the best thing that has ever happened to me, although I hardly suffered from extreme boredom before I joined it. I had a server in my kitchen that ate up 8,500 kilowatt hours of electricity annually, I was constantly tinkering around with networks, and I met up with people at the local branch of the Chaos Club. Still, my heart was only half in these t