Herbert Snorrason

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Herbert Snorrason (born October 18, 1985 ) is an investigative journalist from Iceland . He studied international relations in Reykjavík . As a degree, he earned a bachelor's degree in history. He worked for WikiLeaks for a few months from December 2009 .

Work at WikiLeaks and exit

Snorrason was responsible for managing an internal, secure chat in the whistleblower platform and recruiting new employees for WikiLeaks. In 2010 he left WikiLeaks after internal disputes over Julian Assange's leadership style . Together with Daniel Domscheit-Berg and other former employees of WikiLeaks, he began building an alternative project called OpenLeaks . He spoke out against a possible extradition of Assange to the United States. Snorrason appears on the Internet under the pseudonym anarchodin .

Individual evidence

  1. own profile at Suicide Girls. Retrieved December 28, 2010 .
  2. Marcel Rosenbach , Holger Stark : Public enemy WikiLeaks. How a group of net activists challenge the most powerful nations in the world. P. 206 f. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04518-8 .
  3. Sueddeutsche.de on December 13, 2010: Article and interview. Retrieved December 28, 2010 .
  4. Time online on October 25, 2010: Interview. Retrieved December 28, 2010 .
  5. ^ Golem.de on September 30, 2010: Two more activists resign. Retrieved December 28, 2010 .
  6. Potsdam Latest News on December 8, 2010: End of a Freedom. Retrieved December 28, 2010 .
  7. Profile here on Flickr. Retrieved December 28, 2010 .
  8. Reply to a question about when OpenLeaks would go online. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 28, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / suzetteklierocks.appspot.com  
  9. ^ Der Tagesspiegel on December 8, 2010: Julian Assange: Freiheit oder Not. Retrieved December 28, 2010 .