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

About this book

An expos of the Worlds 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 organizations 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 organizations lack of transparency its abandonment of political neutrality and Assanges increasing concentration of power. What has been made public so far about WikiLeaks is only a small fraction of the truth. With Domscheit-Bergs 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.