"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." - George Orwell, Animal Farm
"Leck bei Wikileaks". The headline in German-language news weekly, Der Freitag, described the irony with Teutonic efficiency: "Leak at Wikileaks". In the story, published on Friday, editor Steffen Kraft claims to have found online a "password protected csv file" containing a 1.73GB cache of entirely unredacted diplomatic cables, originating from Wikileaks. According to Kraft, the password for the file is also easy to locate. The same day, Wikileaks dumped a large number of cables online and asked its followers to help sift through them. Copies of the files have been in the possession of news organizations like the Guardian, the New York Times and Reuters for months, but this is the first time the documents had been made available to the public. The release came, says chief leaker Julian Assange, because the media has lost interest in the diplomatic revelations as yet unreported. (A cynic might infer that Assange -- who remains under house arrest in the UK pending extradition on sexual assault charges -- is worried that the media has lost interest in him too.) But the document found by Der Freitag are not the official Wikileaks files, which have been partly redacted to remove the names of vulnerable sources. Rather it contained thousands of unredacted pages, with 'named or otherwise identifiable "informers" and "suspected intelligence agents," from Israel, Jordan, Iran and Afghanistan.'Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/TBC-anrv7EI/
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