A new book by a WikiLeaks insider blasts Julian Assange as a megalomaniac who regularly lied about the website and boasted about how many children he'd sired. Philip Shenon reports.
A new book by a former top WikiLeaks insider portrays Julian Assange as a paranoid megalomaniac-an "emperor" -who cared so little about computer security and the anonymity of his sources that control of vast amounts of secret information leaked to the website was seized from Assange by WikiLeaks dissidents last fall. And never returned.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Bogus Assange Rape Case
The book by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Assange's former spokesman and right-hand man, says that WikiLeaks functioned for almost all of its existence as a two-man operation-Assange and Domscheit-Berg-despite Assange's claims of a large staff of paid workers and volunteers, and that Assange routinely lied to the public about the whistleblowing site and the extent of its support.
A new book by a former top WikiLeaks insider portrays Julian Assange as a paranoid megalomaniac-an "emperor" -who cared so little about computer security and the anonymity of his sources that control of vast amounts of secret information leaked to the website was seized from Assange by WikiLeaks dissidents last fall. And never returned.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Bogus Assange Rape Case
The book by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Assange's former spokesman and right-hand man, says that WikiLeaks functioned for almost all of its existence as a two-man operation-Assange and Domscheit-Berg-despite Assange's claims of a large staff of paid workers and volunteers, and that Assange routinely lied to the public about the whistleblowing site and the extent of its support.
- 2/10/2011
- by Philip Shenon
- The Daily Beast
Rome -- Li Hongqi 's "Han Jia" (Winter Vacation), a coming-of-age story set it small town China, won the Locarno Film Festival's Golden Leopard prize Saturday during a full but drizzly ceremony at the Piazza Grande. It is the second consecutive year that a film from a Chinese director took home the festival's top prize.
Among the festival's other top prizes: "Morgen," a border drama set on the boundary between Romania and Hungary from Marian Crisan, won a Special Jury Prize, while Denis Cote was given the Prize of the City and Region of Locarno for Best Director for the Canadian thriller "Curling." Emmanuel Bilodeau, the male lead in "Curling" was given the prize for best actor, while Jasna Duricic won the Best Actress honor for her work in "Beli Belisvet" (White White World) from Serbian director Oleg Novkovic.
The top prize carries an award of 90,000 Swiss francs ($85,000), while the...
Among the festival's other top prizes: "Morgen," a border drama set on the boundary between Romania and Hungary from Marian Crisan, won a Special Jury Prize, while Denis Cote was given the Prize of the City and Region of Locarno for Best Director for the Canadian thriller "Curling." Emmanuel Bilodeau, the male lead in "Curling" was given the prize for best actor, while Jasna Duricic won the Best Actress honor for her work in "Beli Belisvet" (White White World) from Serbian director Oleg Novkovic.
The top prize carries an award of 90,000 Swiss francs ($85,000), while the...
- 8/14/2010
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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