http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2011/09/01/3307488.htm http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2011/09/01/3307488... says "According to Der Spiegel

http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2011/09/01/3307488.htm http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2011/09/01/3307488... says "According to Der Spiegel: At the end of 2010, Domscheit-Berg [former worker at Wikileaks and founder of rival, OpenLeaks] finally returned to WikiLeaks a collection of various files that he had taken with him, including the encrypted cables. Shortly afterwards, WikiLeaks supporters released a copy of this data collection onto the Internet as a kind of public archive of the documents that WikiLeaks had previously published. The supporters clearly did not realize, however, that the data contained the original cables, as the file was not only encrypted but concealed in a hidden subdirectory." So The Guardian deliberately leaked the password and Wikileaks accidentally leaked the file. Personally, I think both sound like pretty stupid things to do ...