Row between Wikileaks and Guardian over security breach

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

A row has broken out between Wikileaks and one of the newspapers it collaborated with to leak US diplomatic cables.

The whistle-blowing group said unredacted versions of the 251,000 diplomatic cables had been leaked on the internet.

Wikileaks blamed the disclosure on the Guardian newspaper and said it had started legal action against the paper.

The newspaper has strongly denied the claims, blaming a "security breach".

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14743410

[Lionessa]

1. Well, I've been pro-Wilileaks for a while, and I'm glad to see they take the commitment

to guard the un-redacted (clearly potentially more dangerous to persons etal) data to the point of suing anyone not keeping it properly secure. Though I admit to curiosity about the un-redacted data, I realize that the better integrity lies in the decisions as made by Wikileaks to utilize at semblance of reasonable redaction.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Guardian denies releasing WikiLeaks passwords

Source: Agence France-Presse

Guardian denies releasing WikiLeaks passwords
Posted September 02, 2011 06:11:20

Britain's Guardian newspaper has denied accusations by anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks that one of its journalists leaked the passwords to a trove of unredacted US diplomatic cables.

In a sign of the broken relationship with one of its former media partners, WikiLeaks blamed the Guardian for the leak of 251,000 diplomatic cables online containing details of informants and sources.

"A Guardian journalist has, in a previously undetected act of gross negligence or malice, and in violation of a signed security agreement with the Guardian's editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger, disclosed top-secret decryption passwords to the entire, unredacted WikiLeaks Cablegate archive," it said.

"We have already spoken to the (US) State Department and commenced pre-litigation action. We will issue a formal statement in due course," WikiLeaks added in a statement posted on Twitter.



Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-02/guardian-wikileaks-fight/2867562?section=world

[No Elephants]

3. Is this the batch that people immediately condemned wikileaks for releasing unredacted?