Cybersecurity
Why Wikileaks Is Losing Its Friends
In a week where Wikileaks's power has been on full display, the organization's simplified view of the world is making many of its allies uncomfortable.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange steps out onto the balcony as he prepares to addresses the media and supporters at the Ecuadorian embassy in central London, on Feb. 5, 2016.
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It has been 10 years since Julian Assange founded Wikileaks, the website that has gone on to serve as the world’s most prominent digital repository of leaked government information. The organization has been celebrating a decade of existence over the last week by putting on display everything that makes its brand of radical transparency so powerful and problematic: