Inside WikiLeaks, Daniel DomscheitBerg
Inside WikiLeaks, Daniel DomscheitBerg
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Inside WikiLeaks
My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website

Author: Daniel Domscheit-Berg

Narrator: Erik Davis

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/15/2011


Synopsis

An exposé of the “World’s Most Dangerous Website” from a former WikiLeaks insider

The basis for the movie The Fifth Estate (starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange), this eye-opening account by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former spokesman of WikiLeaks, reveals never-disclosed details about the inner workings of the increasingly controversial organization that has struck fear into governments and business organizations worldwide and prompted the Pentagon to convene a 120-man task force.

Under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, Domscheit-Berg was the effective No. 2 at WikiLeaks and the organization’s most public face, after Julian Assange. In this book, he reveals the evolution, finances, and inner tensions of the whistleblower organization, beginning with his first meeting with Assange in December 2007. He also describes what led to his September 2010 withdrawal from WikiLeaks, including his disenchantment with the organization’s lack of transparency, its abandonment of political neutrality, and Assange’s increasing concentration of power. What has been made public so far about WikiLeaks is only a small fraction of the truth. With Domscheit-Berg’s insider knowledge, he is uniquely able to tell the full story. A computer scientist who worked in IT security prior to devoting himself full-time to WikiLeaks, he remains committed to freedom of information on the Internet. Today he is working on a more transparent secret-sharing website called OpenLeaks, developed by former WikiLeaks people, to be launched in early 2011.

About The Author

Daniel Domscheit-Berg is a computer scientist who, under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, was the effective #2 at WikiLeaks, and was the organization's spokesman and most public face, after Julian Assange. Before devoting himself to WikiLeaks full time, he previously worked in IT security for several multinational companies. Domscheit-Berg left WikiLeaks in September 2010.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stuart

Fascinating account of the rise and fall(?) of Wikileaks. I read it cover to cover over two days. It clearly recounts the early history of Wikileaks and in a way is the account of a breakup of the relationship between Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Also it is the story of a start-up. It sh......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

*So far I'm approaching this book as I often tend to, first and foremost, as an interest in the cult of personality. In that respect, meditations on the subject of leadership and generally how one person or a great idea really can change the world are my source of inspiration, here. There are too ma......more

Goodreads review by Maryan

This memoir of WikiLeaks has no literary pretence; however the detailed and chronological account of the web site and its founder is very compelling. WikiLeaks and Assange need no introduction. This account of Domscheit-Berg’s charts the very scrappy founding of what appeared to be an ad hoc website......more