Ex-Wikileaks man 'deleted files'

BBC ^ | 8/22/11

[markomalley]

A former Wikileaks spokesman claims to have deleted thousands of unpublished files that had been passed to the whistleblowing site.

Daniel Domscheit-Berg told the German Newspaper Der Spiegel that the documents included a copy of the complete US no-fly list.

He said he had "shredded" them to avoid their sources being compromised.

Mr Domscheit-Berg previously worked alongside Julian Assange until the pair had a high profile falling-out.

It is understood that he took the files off Wikileaks' servers at the time of his departure.

Wikileaks confirmed the claims on its Twitter feed, saying: "We can confirm that the DDB claimed destroyed data included a copy of the entire US no-fly list."

The list contains the names of individuals who are banned from boarding planes in the United States or bound for the US, based on suspected terrorist links or other security concerns.

Wikileaks' statement went on to state that Mr Domscheit-Berg had also deleted 5 gigabytes of data relating to Bank of America, the internal communications of 20 neo-Nazi organisations and US intercept information for "over a hundred internet companies."

[exDemMom]

Is he afraid of legal repercussions? Trying to get himself out of hot water?

[1rudeboy]

Cool. I wonder if there is an unregistered Swiss bank account involved.

[Moose Burger]

“...to avoid their sources being compromised.”

How kind of him, he didn’t mind about the chance of terrorists planning an attack double checking their names against the list, but at least their sources wouldn’t be compromised.

[liberalh8ter]

Domscheit?

[yldstrk]

I couldn’t figure out how they were supporting themselves from the article.......

[holden]

Yes, a mountain of the stupid stuff.

HF

[yldstrk]

oMy that is funny.........

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Domscheit?”

Dom—cathedral
scheit—piece of wood
I know it sounds like something else.

[DejaJude]

Domscheit?

Yeah, I wondered how that was pronounced.

[holden]

Wenn's deutsch waere, aber wenn's niederlaendisch waere...

HF

[redgolum]

Maybe the docs were throwing mud on some fellow travelers.

Maybe he didn't want to spend his life in jail, or have a 9mm brain hemorrhage.

But I think this is just smoke. The files will still be somewhere. Just throwing this out there to make the heat go down.

[RobinOfKingston]

If you can’t trust wikileaks any longer, whom can you trust?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

But I think this is just smoke. The files will still be somewhere. Just throwing this out there to make the heat go down.

Right, this reflects the stupidity of a Hollywood movie plot. It's so easy to make extra copies. DOH!

[rawhide]

I’m sure Wikileaks has off-site backups? Shouldn’t be hard to recover?

[max americana]

They have back-ups. This ass-clown was just trying to save his own skin. I still remember Pirate Bay once the judge ruled against them and ordered to surrender dump their files, they still hand-carried the back-up servers to another location.

[DBrow]

Generally, just clicking “delete” does not actually remove the files. So did this guy do a full scrub, or did Julian show up the next day and recover the “lost” files from the Recycle Bin or whatever equivalent they use?

[arderkrag]

Daniel Domscheit-Berg told the German Newspaper Der Spiegel that the documents included a copy of the complete US no-fly list.

Now, see, that's something that would be entertaining to see.

[tcrlaf]

Funny how these guys were HEROS of the Media and the Left, until they made the mistake of going after Obama and the Big Banks, isn’t it?

[Minus_The_Bear]

And leaking the Climategate emails.