Daniel Domscheit-Berg

Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Daniel Domscheit-Berg at 26C3, talking about WikiLeaks, 27 December 2009
Born1978 (age 45–46)
NationalityGerman
Other namesDaniel Schmitt
Known forFormer spokesperson for WikiLeaks, founder of OpenLeaks
SpouseAnke Domscheit-Berg

Daniel Domscheit-Berg (German: [ˈdaːniɛl ˌdɔmʃaɪtˈbɛʁk]; Berg; born 1978), previously known under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, is a German technology activist.[1] He is best known as the former spokesperson for WikiLeaks[1][2] and the author of Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website (2011).[3]

Domscheit-Berg began working with WikiLeaks after meeting Assange at the Chaos Computer Club's annual conference in 2007.[4] In August 2010, Domscheit-Berg was suspended from WikiLeaks by Assange after Domscheit-Berg challenged Assange's effectiveness as a leader.[5] In September 2010, Domscheit-Berg resigned from WikiLeaks, saying "WikiLeaks has a structural problem. I no longer want to take responsibility for it, and that's why I am leaving the project."[1]

On December 17, 2010, he announced plans to open a new website for anonymous online leaks called OpenLeaks.[6] At a Chaos Computer Club (CCC) event in August 2011, he announced its preliminary launch and invited hackers to test the security of the OpenLeaks system. The launch was a failure as it was unable to get online. The CCC criticized Domscheit-Berg for exploiting the good name of the club to promote his OpenLeaks project and expelled him from the club.[7][8] This decision was revoked in February 2012.[9] In September 2011, several news organizations cited Domscheit-Berg's split from Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as one of a series of events that led to the release that month of all 251,287 United States diplomatic cables in the Cablegate affair.[10][11][12]

In 2011, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its FP Top 100 Global Thinkers.[13]

  1. ^ a b c "WikiLeaks Spokesman Quits: 'The Only Option Left for Me Is an Orderly Departure'". Der Spiegel. 27 September 2010. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
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  3. ^ Tweedie, Neil; Swaine, Jon (11 December 2010). "WikiLeaks Julian Assange: the most dangerous man in the world?". The Daily Telegraph.
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  5. ^ Poulsen, Kim Zetter and Kevin. "Unpublished Iraq War Logs Trigger Internal WikiLeaks Revolt". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  6. ^ Piven, Ben (17 December 2010). "Copycat WikiLeaks sites make waves". Al Jazeera English. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  7. ^ "Chaos Computer Club: Hacker distanzieren sich von OpenLeaks". Der Spiegel (in German). 13 August 2011. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Streit mit Assange: Ex-Sprecher vernichtete WikiLeaks-Dateien". Der Spiegel (in German). 21 August 2011. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  9. ^ "CCC | Ergebnis der außerordentlichen Mitgliederversammlung". Ccc.de. 5 February 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  10. ^ Stöcker, Christian (1 September 2011). "Leak at WikiLeaks: A Dispatch Disaster in Six Acts". Der Spiegel. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  11. ^ Kulish, Robert Mackey, Jacob Harris, Ravi Somaiya and Nicholas (September 2011). "All Leaked U.S. Cables Were Made Available Online as WikiLeaks Splintered". The Lede. Retrieved 28 July 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Greenwald, Glenn (2 September 2011). "Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga". Salon. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  13. ^ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers | Foreign Policy". Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2017.

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