Internet activists from Wikileaks: The leak in the network

The operators of the Internet portal Wikileaks will make sensitive documents from anonymous sources available to the public.

That the name of Wikipedia remembered is intentional: How in the great hands-Lexicon every publish. When it comes specifically to Wikileaks secret documents, the English word “leak” means “leak”.

The idea behind critical journalists and bloggers should take up the secret information and inform the public. The informants are referred to as “Whistleblower” (tipster). The people behind Wikileaks describe their platform as uncensorable – a complex technical infrastructure to ensure that the documents for publication are not deleted. The material passes through different channels to the employees, most often on the site Wikileaks.org.

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Initially called Wikileaks as a primary goal, to infiltrate “dominated regime of oppression.” Make headlines, however, especially publications from the Western world. Last Wikileaks was provided in July with the release of tens of thousands of secret documents of the U.S. Army from the Afghanistan war for excitement, especially in Washington.

Even sensitive documents are available online from Germany – since November 2009 about the once held under lock and toll contract between the Federal Government and the operator Toll Collect consortium. For years, journalists and members of parliament had tried in vain to get insight into the contract.

With their work, make the Wikileaks activists in government authorities and armed forces have any friends.Themselves and also experts believe that the organization is in the crosshairs of the secret services. Most employees should enter only with a pseudonym to the public.

Well-known media like newspapers, “New York Times” and “Guardian” or even just the news magazine “Der Spiegel” grab now coming back to documents from Wikileaks. Critics miss editorial control. To sit up no fakes, the staff examined all the documents before publication, as well as they can just. The release of journalists but not the obligation, nachzurecherchieren itself.

The Wikileaks-makers take a while for transparency, about themselves they do little good, however. Behind the project lies a non-profit organization called The Sunshine Press – on which however is not much known.The organization itself says that it was among other human rights activists, journalists and lawyers set up.As the leading head of Wikileaks is the activist Julian Assange.

In an article in the “taz” it said on Wikileaks: “Consistently over thought, would eventually show up on Wikileaks a document that reveals the names of allegedly only five professional staff and to the 1000 free people.”