Wikileaks has released the following statement in response to excerpts from a book that were leaked to Cryptome.org on Wednesday. The response from Wikileaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson was posted at Forbes
WikiLeaks has been taking legal action against former employee, Daniel Domscheit-Berg who was suspended from the organization in September. The reasons for these actions will gradually become clear, but some are hinted at by extracts from Domscheit-Bergs book.
In the book Domscheit-Berg confesses to various acts of sabotage against the organization. The former WikiLeaks staffer admits to having damaged the sites primary submission system and stolen material.
The sabotage and concern over motives led to an overhaul of the entire submission system, an ongoing project that is not being expedited due to its complex nature and the organization´s need to focus its resources on publication and defense.
It should be noted that Domscheit-Berg´s roles within WikiLeaks were limited and started to diminish almost a year ago as his integrity and stability were questioned. He has falsely misrepresented himself in the press as a programmer, computer-scientist, security expert, architect, editor, founder, director and spokesman. He is not a founder or co-founder and nor was there any contact with him during the founding years. He did not even have an email address with the organization until 2008 (we launched in December 2006). He cannot program and wrote not a single program for the organization, at any time.
Domschiet-Berg was never an architect for the organization, technically, or in matters of policy. He was a spokesperson for WikiLeaks in Germany at various times, but he was never the spokesman for WikiLeaks, nor was he ever WikiLeaks editor, although he subedited some articles. He was also never a computer scientist, or computer security expert, although he was a computer science student many years ago. His accounts of the crucial times in WikiLeaks history since April last year are therefore based upon limited information or malicious falsifications.
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agreed
I didn't say anything about Domscheit beeing the good guy, what I said
about Julian is what I would say about him. It just seems to me that both
of them are working for their personal gain. Domscheit's getting alot of
attention from the press now, and there's no need to talk about Julians
exposure. Now both of them start selling their books (I believe Julian has
an autobiography in the works that is due in a couple of weeks) and who do
you think will profit from those book-sales?
They're doing a good job at taking down wikileaks all by themselves, more
effectively than any government smear-campaign could ever have been. Don't
get me wrong, I very much support every leaking-project there is and those
that will be, it's a noble concept. I just think many things went wrong
for WL.
I cannot comment on how much
I cannot comment on how much Berg has told is true, however stealing data and disrupting Wikileaks functioning was a very lowly behaviour. For all the things that WL stands for and has done so far, a smear campaign by Berg as a personal vendetta against Assange is indeed shameful on his part.
Fair enough
Fair enough, but if he truly is not technically adept, how did he manage to sabotage anything? How would he have access to do any of that?
Domschiet-Berg is the duche,
Domschiet-Berg is the duche, and a dick. That's All. GO Wilileaks!
Dump Assange..
...this is gettin pathetic. Who cares about that kind of soap opera? Btw.. Julian acts like a giant douchebag, WL would be better off without him.
What a immature
What a immature behavior...
Typisch Deutscher. Domscheit-Berg versucht krankhaft intelligent zu wirken und bildet sich ein eine wichtige Persoenlichkeit zu sein. Dabei ist er ein Niemand. Und mit seinen kindischen Aktion ist der kleine Moechtegern nur auf niedrigste Rache aus. Was fuer ein Schmock.
eightythree = Domscheit-Berg