Timeline: Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Home » Industry Watch (» The Technological) (» Hall of Monkeys) (» Heroes Banquet) An history of Daniel Schmitt/Domscheit-Berg and WikiLeaks.
Transcribed from the database of DDB activities used for the articles at Rixstep. This is the story of Daniel Berg aka Daniel Schmitt aka Daniel Domscheit-Berg, one of the many collaborators with WikiLeaks in the 'nascent period' up to but not including the big releases of 2010. Daniel was an employee of the US storage giant EDS in Rüsselsheim Germany when he heard about WikiLeaks. Daniel's not a programmer - and certainly not a hacker - but seemed to 'dabble' in political topics such as 'anarchy' and transparency. But we're getting ahead of our story. The data formed a huge database of events and online references building a timeline of the years 2007-2010. Readers are encouraged to take the material at face value, ignore the occasional 'subjective comment' that slips through, and draw their own conclusions. Santorini August 2011 Milestones October 2006. Open Letter. Dear friends and supporters of Wikileaks, I am a human rights and information rights lawyer working in Central America.
I met both Daniel Domscheit-Berg and Julian Assange during the summer of 2008 at the Global Voices conference in Budapest. Since then Mr. Domscheit-Berg and I kept in touch via e-mail and instant messaging service. When I met them I was very interested and excited by Wikileaks’ potential, particularly for human rights practitioners in Latin America, where institutions are very weak and offer little protection to human rights defenders. Before leaving I gave WikiLeaks some documents detailing proof of torture and government abuse of a Latin America country.
Mr. The last time I saw him was on 7 October 2010 in Berlin - less than a month after he had been suspended from WikiLeaks. I found it quite odd that someone usually very careful with strangers was inviting such people to his home. I was surprised and disappointed to read that Mr. The allegation was made by Mr.
Cc. WikiLeaks threatens legal action against Daniel Domscheit-Berg. WikiLeaks is threatening to take legal action against a former employee whose book chronicling his time with the organisation characterises its founder, Julian Assange, as obsessed by power and money and with a fondness for young women.
A statement from WikiLeaks said it was taking unspecified action against Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a German national who was once Assange's closest collaborator, after extracts of his book were printed on another site. Kristinn Hrafnsson, a spokeswoman for WikiLeaks, told the Forbes website that Domscheit-Berg confessed in his book to sabotaging the organisation's submission system for new leaks and that he had been suspended from his duties last September. In a response to Forbes, Domscheit-Berg denied sabotage and ridiculed the legal threat, saying he had received a letter from a lawyer representing Assange "written in the worst German I ever read", which failed to mention a single law he might have broken. It says: "We were not motivated by revenge. Exposed: Wikileaks' secrets. This article was taken from the October issue of Wired UK magazine.
Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online Wikileaks claims it has toppled governments and exposed Swiss bank fraud. It has been targeted by libel lawyers around the world and is banned in three countries. How? By publishing confidential documents.
Wikileaks is an online evidence drop. Earlier this year, Wikileaks embarrassed the Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, when it published his government's list of banned websites, which incriminated 2,602 sites - including that of a Queensland dentist. But who is behind Wikileaks? With a slow, lilting walk, weighed down by a laptop bag that is rarely out of his sight, Daniel "Schmitt" - he won't give his real surname - sits down at a table in the rear of a café in central Italy. Wikileaks has been surrounded by controversy since the start.