The End of Secrecy: The Rise and Fall of WikiLeaks

✍ Scribed by The ''Guardian''; Leigh, David; Harding, Luke

• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 252 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780852652398

✦ Synopsis

SUMMARY:
The extraordinary twists and turns of the WikiLeaks drama have been closely followed by the Guardian newspaper ever since the website launched in 2006, and Guardian journalists have had unprecedented access to all the major players, from angry and embarrassed politicans and diplomats to the extraordinary figure of Julian Assange himself. Here two of their top reporters take the lid off the WikiLeaks phenomenon and explore the many strands of a story that continues to dominate world headlines. They look at the internet culture and technology that made the mining of secret information possible, and at the fanatical hackers who set up WikiLeaks. They explore the secret goings-on that WikiLeaks has uncovered, from the revelation of extra-judicial killings in Kenya in 2008 to the avalanche of US diplomatic cables in 2010. They study the implications of the latest revelations. And they reveal the strange and contradictory nature of Assange himself: a man praised by Amnesty International in 2009 but also a man who, barely a year later, was to be accused by Swedish police of sex crimes. Up until now, the story has been revealed piecemeal. WikiLeaks gives the full picture.