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Daniel Domscheit-Berg Admits to WikiLeaks Sabotage

by NowPublic Staff | August 22, 2011 at 08:52 am

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Former Assange Ally Daniel Domscheit-Berg Deleted 3500 Unpublished Leaks

Daniel Domscheit-Berg, former WikiLeaks deputy and ex-pal of Julian Assange, admitted to sabotaging the whistleblower site. Domscheit-Berg deleted 3,500 unleaked files.

Among the documents Domscheit-Berg has permanently destroyed:

The complete TSA No-Fly List
Bank of America documents
Info on neo-Nazi groups
Data interception agreements between ISPs and the US government

Domscheit-Berg revealed his actions during an interview with Der Spiegel (German Article/Google English translation). Bank of America has been bracing for a WikiLeaks dump for some time. It's not clear whether or not Daniel Domscheit-Berg destroyed all the documents pertaining to BofA.

After a schism with Wikileaks, Domscheit-Berg worked on starting a Wikileaks competitor called Openleaks.

WikiLeaks released a statement on the matter via TwitLonger, in which Julian Assange suggests that Daniel Domscheit-Berg was acting under orders from a foreign government.

I have received a warning from a current Western intelligence officer that DDB has been in contact with the FBI, on more than one occasion, and that the information from this contact was "helpful". I do not know if DDB was complicit with the reported contact.

Daniel Domscheit-Berg was also kicked out of the German hacker group Chaos Computer Club (CCC) after other members thought that he was using CCC's reputation for his own ends. That news came via Andy Muller-Maguhn, CCC spokesman and white-hat security consultant.

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JamesB (not verified)

at 08:58 on August 23rd, 2011

Daniel Domscheit-Berg probably has a nice fat cheque from Bank of America for a job well done. Who would ever trust his website after he did this? Plus I guess he gets back at Assange and feeds his ego at the expense of the public interest. Daniel you are PATHETIC!!!!