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"We had to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before any further information could be disclosed." Proof that wikileaks is a self-serving political organizat
by bl4k 16y ago
"We had to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before any further information could be disclosed."
Proof that wikileaks is a self-serving political organization.
The irony of forcing them to sign an NDA on data that is about to be leaked onto wikileaks is probably lost on all of them.
- alextgordon 16y agoThe NDA wasn't for the data, it says in the article that they had no access to it: 2. We had no knowledge of the data before the official release date (or as little as was needed from the technical aspect); It seems to me that the NDA was more a product of Assange's paranoia than anything else.
- tjarratt 16y agoI'm pretty sure that "self-serving political organization" is a tautology, based on the fact that an outsider-serving political organization would be an oxymoron, or at best, a charity by definition. That said, the NDA is probably more so they don't leak the announcement before WikiLeaks does. They put a lot of effort into releasing information, and having a third party say "WikiLeaks is going to be releasing information on X day" undermines the control that they desire. edit: what AlexTGordon said, it's a product of paranoia / control.
- neilk 16y agoWikiLeaks has found that the mainstream press won't cover anything in depth unless they're assured of some exclusivity and advance notice. I don't know for sure, but that's probably the reason for the NDA. WikiLeaks used to just dump information on the world and assume that researchers and journalists would take it from there, but apparently it doesn't work like that.