Christian Grothoff explains that the material was already available online in encrypted form. By the time Wikileaks made them public, people had already decrypt

Christian Grothoff explains that the material was already available online in encrypted form. By the time Wikileaks made them public, people had already decrypted them thanks to Guardian journalists revealing the password in their book. Blame clearly lies with the Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding for being reckless with the password. > WikiLeaks made the unredacted cache available after they were available on the other sites, on 2nd September 2011 > The materials at that time were already available online "in a way that was virtually impossible to stop"