WikiLeaks Busts a Water Main

Is WikiLeaks unravelling under Julian Assange extreme European manliness? Maybe that isn’t the case, but apparently Assange just gives out passwords to any Jane, Beth or Mary.

The organization had copies of classified, unredacted U.S. State Department cables that it kept on its servers. Unlike the cables previously released, the leaked copies are not censored to hide sensitive information — meaning that the names of informants and suspected intelligence agents are now exposed.

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According to Germany’s Der Spiegel, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gave the file’s password to an “external contact” who proceeded to leak it online.

There’s no truth to the rumour that Assange’s password is lovemachine.