Julian Assange - WikiLeaks by Sophie Radermecker

Author:Sophie Radermecker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cogito Media Group
Published: 2011-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

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DDOS: DANIEL DOMSCHEIT-BERG OR SCHMITT

December 29, 2007: 24C3, Twenty-Fourth Chaos Communication Congress

This Berlin congress, organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), has become Europe’s main hacker and hacktivist gathering. The CCC was founded on September 12, 1981 in the offices of independent newspaper Die Tageszeitung (aka Taz), and one of its founders was Herwart Holland-Moritz, known to people as Wau Holland, famous German hacker of the 1980s. The Wau Holland Foundation is a tribute to this national hero of hacktivism who died in 2001 at the age of forty-nine. It supports several projects that the CCC holds dear: the social aspect of technical evolution, and the history of technology and freedom of information. In October 2009, CCC became WikiLeaks’s main lender.

The Chaos Computer Congress (C3) has been growing constantly since its launch. In a relaxed atmosphere, it welcomes expert speakers in front of an impassioned audience among which WikiLeaks members are regulars.

In 2006 at the 23C3, Jacob Appelbaum presented his method to circumvent FileVault, Apple’s encrypted disk storage system. His co-speaker was Ralf-Philip Weinmann, former colleague of Julian Assange on Rubberhose, freeware they created together in 1997.

In 2007 at the 24C3, Rop Gonggrijp gave a presentation on electronic voting systems in the Netherlands. Another passionate presentation was given by Annie Machon, former MI5 agent (British FBI). She told her story of deceptions and life as a recluse whistleblower in France. She was also invited by Julian Assange in 2008 to the Hacking At Random event in the Netherlands.

The twenty-fourth congress featured four days of conferences. The themes discussed ranged from electronic crime to freeware and from cryptography to anonymity, with the Tor program being featured four times.

Aside from these conferences, workshops were organized on various emerging themes. On December 23, at 9:30 p.m. a certain ‘Julian Assange,’ member of the advisory board of an organization called WikiLeaks presented “Wikileaks – a place for journalists, truth tellers and everybody else.”

German IT professional Daniel Berg attended the presentation. He was a network engineer for the international company EDS, which deals in electronic data. On the social professional network LinkedIn his profile features the keywords: “realityanalyzer, dreamshaper, freedomdefender, interestdetester, whalesaver, bookeater, overflower, underminer, wardriver, packetizer, hacker, assoffworker, motivator, creator.”

Julian Assange presented WikiLeaks, its mission, technical challenges and the already realistic visibility of the project thanks to articles published in The Guardian, The New York Times, Washington Post, Die Welt and Der Spiegel. He finished his presentation by asking the audience to join the movement.

After Julian and Daniel Berg met, Berg decided to join.

Daniel was a technician, IT graduate from the University of Cooperative Education of Mannheim, a university that gave incompany training based on immersion practice. Daniel had been working at EDS since 2002. He liked running, mountain biking, David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and was a workaholic. He once endured a 428-hour work marathon in four weeks to save a project in danger in Moscow.

WikiLeaks was in full upswing, and so such a resource was more than welcome. Daniel worked as an analyst for the organization in his spare time.

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