Daniel Domscheit-Berg

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Daniel Domscheit-Berg (* 1978 , as Daniel Berg ), also known by his pseudonym Daniel Schmitt , is a German computer scientist , a former spokesman for the WikiLeaks disclosure platform and author. He is also the founder of OpenLeaks .

Life and professional history

Domscheit-Berg studied Applied Computer Science at the Mannheim University of Cooperative Education from 2002 and graduated in 2005. He then worked as a network engineer at Electronic Data Systems in Rüsselsheim , where he had already completed the practical part of the dual studies, until January 2009 . His professional focus was on information security and WLAN technology. At the beginning of 2009, however, he left his former job for WikiLeaks and moved from the Rhine-Main area to Berlin. Even during his career, he was committed to freedom of information and transparency on the Internet. After meeting Julian Assange in 2007, he began helping to build WikiLeaks. In May 2012 he joined the Pirate Party together with his wife Anke Domscheit-Berg . Domscheit-Berg was Political Director of the Pirate Party Brandenburg from August 2013 to July 2014 and resigned from the party in 2014. He is one of the supporters of the Charter of Fundamental Digital Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016.

Domscheit-Berg has been married to Anke Domscheit-Berg since 2010 . The couple support the Icelandic initiative on modern media , which is primarily intended to legally protect investigative online journalism , as operated by WikiLeaks. Daniel Domscheit-Berg was involved in the preparatory work for the new Icelandic law. He lives in Fürstenberg / Havel and is the first chairman of the havel: lab eV, the sponsoring association of the Makerspace Verstehbahnhof.

activism

Collaboration with WikiLeaks

Along with the main speaker Julian Assange and Kristinn Hrafnsson, he was one of the platform's familiar faces and one of the few full-time employees. In September 2010, he left WikiLeaks after an argument with Assange. This had suspended him from his duties.

Domscheit-Berg then criticized Assange's work and leadership style as authoritarian. WikiLeaks is hierarchically organized and non-transparent, which is wrong for a group that advocates transparency and democratic values. You didn't learn from mistakes. After the publication of spectacular documents, WikiLeaks was under great pressure and neglected to work on other publications.

Domscheit-Berg published a book about his time at WikiLeaks in February 2011. The book was published under the title Inside WikiLeaks: My time on the world's most dangerous website in February of that year at Econ Verlag . The ghostwriter of the book was Zeit-Online editor Tina Klopp . It has been translated into a variety of languages ​​and the film rights have been bought from Dreamworks . The book was filmed by Bill Condon under the title Inside Wikileaks - The Fifth Estate in 2013. Daniel Brühl played Domscheit-Berg in it. There had already been controversies about the content and direction of the film in advance. The main points of contention were the portrayal of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the portrayal of the conflict over the publication of the US military documents, which had led to the rift between Domscheit-Berg and Assange.

In Alex Gibney's documentary We Steal Secrets: The WikiLeaks Story , Domscheit-Berg reports on his collaboration with Assange and his time at WikiLeaks.

In August 2011 it became known that Domscheit-Berg had finally destroyed 3,500 unpublished Wikileaks documents in a dispute with Assage. Including explosive material about 20 right-wing organizations should have been. Domscheit-Berg justified the deletion with the protection of the sources, since Wikileaks could not guarantee their security.

Collaboration at OpenLeaks

In December 2010 Daniel Domscheit-Berg announced that he was planning to offer his own whistleblower platform under the name OpenLeaks , together with Herbert Snorrason and other former employees of WikiLeaks . The OpenLeaks website went online in January 2011, but has not been accessible since October 2012.

Data breach at WikiLeaks

At the beginning of September 2011, WikiLeaks published the cables of US embassies in full and unedited , drawing the consequence of a glitch that had made it possible for outsiders to put the decrypted and unedited text online on Cryptome and other websites. Domscheit-Berg was one of those involved in the run-up, whose actions led to the data leak .

Connection to the Chaos Computer Club

In August 2011, the board of the Chaos Computer Club decided to exclude Daniel Domscheit-Berg from the club. This was preceded by public criticism of the then board member Andy Müller-Maguhn of Domscheit-Berg's behavior in connection with his separation from WikiLeaks and the accusation that he had misused the reputation of the Chaos Computer Club for his own OpenLeaks project. But he remained a member of the independent CCC Berlin. The exclusion was withdrawn at an extraordinary general meeting of the CCC on February 5, 2012, at the same time Müller-Maguhn was no longer elected to the board of the CCC.

Works

literature

Web links

Commons : Daniel Domscheit-Berg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b German Wikileaks spokesman goes into dispute at spiegel.de, accessed on October 7, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b Ullstein book publishers: portrait of the author. Retrieved December 21, 2010 .
  3. ^ Scribe Publications: Author portrait. Archived from the original on February 19, 2011 ; Retrieved December 22, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Focus Online on May 10, 2012: Anke Domscheit-Berg switches to the pirates. Retrieved May 10, 2012 .
  5. ^ Spiegel Online on May 11, 2012: Ex-WikiLeaks spokesman is a pirate. Retrieved May 11, 2012 .
  6. ↑ wiki.piratenbrandenburg.de/Vorstand. Retrieved July 18, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Tweet from Anke Domscheit-Berg. Retrieved September 9, 2016 .
  8. ↑ List of supporters for the legislative package. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011 ; Retrieved December 21, 2010 .
  9. ↑ Marcel Rosenbach, Holger Stark: Public enemy WikiLeaks. How a group of net activists challenge the most powerful nations in the world. Pp. 114-116 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04518-8 .
  10. ↑ The arduous struggle against Internet surveillance , Der Tagesspiegel, July 11, 2013.
  11. ↑ havel lab eV: about. In: havel lab eV - Association for the promotion of curiosity and discovery. Archived from the original on December 5, 2019 ; accessed on February 28, 2020 .
  12. ↑ havel: lab eV: About us. In: Verstehbahnhof. Archived from the original on August 30, 2018 ; accessed on February 28, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Domscheit leaves WikiLeaks
  14. ↑ Rosenbach, Marcel and Stark, Holger: The only thing left for me is to withdraw . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 2010, p. 190 f . ( online ).
  15. ↑ Mainzer Rhein-Zeitung online on December 3, 2010: 13 points: Wikileaks dropout explains the platform and how it continues. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 28, 2011 ; Retrieved December 25, 2010 .
  16. ↑ Interview with Der Freitag on December 9, 2010. Accessed on February 8, 2011 .
  17. ↑ Publishing information. Retrieved February 8, 2011 .
  18. ↑ WikiLeaks Book: Disappointed Love. Retrieved February 13, 2011 .
  19. ↑ WikiLeaks adaptation: Raiders of the Lost Files
  20. ↑ Inside Wikileaks - the fifth power , Detlef Borchers, heise.de, October 23, 2013 0213
  21. ↑ "Inside Wikileaks" movie: "There's blood on Assange's hands!" , Detlef Borchers, faz.net, October 23, 2013
  22. ↑ Daniel Domscheit-Berg: Wikileaks co-founder is a pirate - Golem.de. Retrieved on July 28, 2020 (German).
  23. ^ Zeit.de on December 10, 2010: Wikileaks dropouts set up their own platform. Retrieved February 8, 2011 .
  24. ↑ Heise.de on September 2, 2011: Wikileaks: Alles muss raus (update). Retrieved September 5, 2011 .
  25. ↑ "Cryptome has decrypted the" z.gpg "file from the Wikileaks Archive using the passphrase obtained from several sources: ACollectionOfDiplomaticHistorySince_1966_ToThe_PresentDay # The decrypted" z.7z "file will be mailed on a DVD by request to cryptome [at] earthlink.net with the subject: z7z. For the DVD provide a postal address. "" The decrypted file is "z.7z," 368MB, which unzips to "cables.csv," about 1.7GB in size, dated 4/12/2010. "" Http: // cryptome.org/z/z.7z (368MB - CSV version) “in: Cryptome. Retrieved September 5, 2011 .
  26. ^ Spiegel Online on September 1, 2011: Data leak at WikiLeaks. Dispatch disaster in six acts. Retrieved September 11, 2011 .
  27. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau on August 31, 2011: Wikileaks dispute over data leak escalated. Retrieved September 13, 2011 .
  28. ↑ Time online on August 14, 2011: CCC throws Domscheit-Berg out. Retrieved August 14, 2011 .
  29. ↑ Netzpolitik.org on August 14, 2011: Comment: Board member throws Daniel Domscheit-Berg out of the CCC. Retrieved August 14, 2011 .
  30. ↑ Interview with Andy Müller-Maguhn . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 2011, p. 81 ( spiegel.de ).
  31. ↑ https://www.golem.de/news/ccc-domscheit-berg-ist-zurueck-mueller-maguhn-nicht-mehr-vorstand-1202-89571.html
  32. ^ Result of the extraordinary general meeting. Retrieved February 5, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Domscheit-Berg, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitt, Daniel (pseudonym); Berg, Daniel (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German spokesman for the whistleblower platform WikiLeaks
DATE OF BIRTH 1978