Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website

by Daniel Domscheit-Berg

Overview

Fromer Wikileaks insider and spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg authors an expose of the "World's Most Dangerous Website."

In an eye-opening account, 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, prompting the Pentagon to convene a 120-person task force. Under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, Domscheit-Berg was the effective Number 2 at Wikileaks and the organization's public face, after Julian Assange. In this book, he reveals the evolution, finances, and inner tensions of the whistleblower organization, beginning with this 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.


From the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307951939
Publisher:	Crown Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/15/2011
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

DANIEL DOMSCHEIT-BERG, under the pseydonym Daniel Schmitt, was the effective Number 2 at WikiLeaks, and was the organization's spokesman and most public face after Julian Assange. A computer scientist who worked primarily in IT security for several multinational companies prior to devoting himself full-time to WikiLeaks, Domscheit-Berg remains committed to freedom of information and transparency on the internet. He is currently working on a more transparent secret-sharing website called OpenLeaks, developed by former WikiLeaks staffers, which will be launched in 2011.


From the Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

For an organization devoted to exposing the secrets of others, Wiki­Leaks, under the leadership of Julian Assange, has been aggressively protective of its own secrets. Now Daniel Domscheit-Berg has pulled back the curtain with a memoir about his three years as Assange's spokesman…And he reminds us of the danger of concentrating power in the hands of one man, whose secretive organization became the mirror image of the powerful institutions he sought to expose.
—The Washington Post

Jeffrey Rosen

With such a classic plotline—charismatic leader attracts loyal follower and then becomes paranoid and obsessed with power—it’s surprising that this audiobook takes so long to engage. The first half is slow to launch, and the measured, earnest reading provided by Erik Davies doesn’t click into gear until he has something interesting to talk about: the Afghan papers and the arrest of Bradley Manning. But just as the author, one of the original members of WikiLeaks, wears only half of the WikiLeaks logo tattooed on his back, the listener may feel that only half the story is being told and that “D” (as the author is known in WikiLeaks chat rooms) is hesitant spill all the beans. Don’t expect a tell-all. This is a decent “tell-some.” R.W.S. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

MAY 2011 - AudioFile

With such a classic plotline—charismatic leader attracts loyal follower and then becomes paranoid and obsessed with power—it’s surprising that this audiobook takes so long to engage. The first half is slow to launch, and the measured, earnest reading provided by Erik Davies doesn’t click into gear until he has something interesting to talk about: the Afghan papers and the arrest of Bradley Manning. But just as the author, one of the original members of WikiLeaks, wears only half of the WikiLeaks logo tattooed on his back, the listener may feel that only half the story is being told and that “D” (as the author is known in WikiLeaks chat rooms) is hesitant spill all the beans. Don’t expect a tell-all. This is a decent “tell-some.” R.W.S. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

MAY 2011 - AudioFile