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May 30, 2011 9:02 PM

What ever happened to the information Rudolf Elmer gave to WikiLeaks?
posted by vorpal bunny to Grab Bag (4 answers total)

Wikileaks has been sitting on a lot of stuff for several months now: the Bank of America logs, the uncensored version of this book, etc. I don't know why-- it's easy to speculate-- but all the leaks are stoppered up at the moment.
posted by shii at 9:34 PM on May 30, 2011

Well, India has set up a panel to investigate black money after Assange revealed Indian nationals are mentioned in the documents.
posted by Ad hominem at 9:41 PM on May 30, 2011

Seconding Bwithh's answer above. If you believe what Domscheit-Berg describes in his book "Inside Wikileaks", the Wikileaks organization is much, much smaller than you might think, their infrastructure is more rudimentary than you'd hope, and absolutely everything is tightly controlled by Assange.

Also, when Domscheit-Berg and some other volunteers ("the Architect") left Wikileaks, they apparently took with them some materials that had been submitted to Wikileaks but not yet published because they felt the remaining people and systems were not secure enough to guarantee that the documents would be handled right. D-B promised to return them to Wikileaks as soon as they demonstrated the capacity to handle submissions appropriately. It's possible that the bank info was among those documents. (Note, I'm just reporting what I've read myself.)
posted by mvd at 1:34 AM on May 31, 2011

D-B was Wikileaks. Assange didn't invent the system at all. D-B set up a new Wikileaks because he believed Assange was acting irresponsibily and also taking over arbitrarily. I think the new site is called OpenLeaks and it will work with the press.
posted by Ironmouth at 3:38 AM on May 31, 2011