One On One: Andy Greenberg, Author, “This Machine Kills Secrets”
By NICOLE PERLROTH
OCTOBER 27, 2012, 6:32 AM
... WikiLeaks seemed like a noble experiment. Yes, leaks hurt companies and government agencies but there is a moral argument behind them because if whistleblowers see the need to get information out, then he is just enabling them. But when I watched WikiLeaks fall apart over the next year, I became less impressed with the way Assange ran the project. To some degree, he let his own paranoia take over. That caused a mutiny in which The Architect, the engineer who built WikiLeaks infrastructure, left and took WikiLeaks’ best resources with him to OpenLeaks ...
They do not have a very fond relationship at this point. He sees Assange as driven by his ego and there were points when he felt like Assange was not as focused about the release of significant information as he was on breaking records, releasing leaks that were bigger than the last one ...
WikiLeaks has now said the leak was Bank of America. But they don’t have it anymore. WikiLeaks blames The Architect and Daniel Domscheit-Berg for taking the files with them to OpenLeaks. Those two claim that was not the case, that WikiLeaks just lost the files.
Insiders have told me that when The Architect joined WikiLeaks it was a mess. It was two creaking servers without all the flashy security that Assange had promised in interviews with the media. The Architect rebuilt it from scratch. They say the leak was lost because of an I.T. problem, that WikiLeaks was trying to deal with enormous amounts of data and that one of their storage drives crashed and they lost it ...
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/one-on-one-andy-greenberg-author-this-machine-kills-secrets/