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How the transparency collective DDoSecrets eclipsed WikiLeaks

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"The Architect" is a German guy who actively sabotaged Wikileaks in the past.

You mean the guy who formerly worked for EDS and is now married to a cringeworthy politician, living somewhere north of Berlin, involved in running some small village hackerspace in parts of a railway station?

Can you post some sort of evidence?

I'm Samir Allioui, and personally vouch for my own words. When I was to take over the Wikileaks infrastructure during the first dutch pirate party election campaign; the architect sabotaged it leaving Julian in dire need of resources,he told me when i briefly had a chat with him in Brussels. ( And i know the architect is German due to his accent - we had two burner calls ) After this event, i talked to Rick resulting in him and some .ch friends eventually resolving the situation.

So that's a no on presenting any sort of evidence?

My testimony is evidence, but on it's own no proof. Surely others will testify supporting my claim.

Relevant note by NatSecGeek: https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek/status/1430157667604090880

"This tweet is unavailable" doesn't make for particularly convincing evidence.

TL;DR It said that it is unknown if the WL "The Architect" is the same as "The Architect" of DS.

I'm sure not being run by a narcissistic recluse holed up in an embassy and/or jail is part of the story.

How could one "run" such a thing while being locked up and monitored by cia and mi5; 24/7 ? Perhaps it's time to rethink homeland security narratives.

Delegation of responsibilities. If you are running a website that is sure to set the world on fire, there should be a succession plan in case you're stuck in prison.

The website extinguished tons of fires and succession/contingency plans are a success despite various sabotage attempts and people threating people with silenced guns in Brussels parking garages. The genie is out of the bottle and the lies that have started wars are now being dismantled for peace.

That should be the bare minimum indeed, but then of course the narcissism would come into play and ruin it.

There are many extraordinarily dickish aspects of the narcissism smear.

For one, he deserves praise and a bit of ego, for outstanding service to humanity. Many times over. And he doesn't even actually blow his own horn about it that much - TO be fair, it's hard to, when in prison for revealing embarrassing war crimes.

Two, they _really were_ out to get to him, and we know that for a fact.

Three - many of the journalists who repeated this smear did so after their media orgs profited from his disclosures; ie, NYT, The Guardian.

Four - since Assange is on the ASD spectrum, lay people might actually believe the smear, confusing awkwardness for aloofness. Here's a handy guide to telling the difference between narcissism and ASD - https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/narcissism-vs-aspergers-how... . Reading that, it's abundantly clear why such a calculated smear was employed.

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