BOOK OF THE MONTH: MARCH 2011

                                              
Title          : Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with
                                Julian Assange at the World's
                                Most Dangerous Website
Author      : Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Pages       : 288
Publisher  : Random House UK
Published : 03 February 2011
Price         : $ 23
ISBN         : 13: 9780224094016

Since its launch in 2006, WikiLeaks has rapidly grown into the most powerful and influential whistleblowing organisation ever. Its status as a repository and publisher of leaked sensitive and confidential documents ‹ while preserving the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors ‹ as well as the statements and behaviour of its leader, Julian Assange, have made WikiLeaks daily front-page news and a topic of enormous controversy.

In an eye-opening account, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who joined WikiLeaks in its early days and became its spokesman, reveals never-disclosed details about the inner workings of the organisation that has struck fear into governments and businesses worldwide, and prompted the Pentagon to convene a 120-man investigative task force. He also provides a remarkably up-close portrait of Julian Assange himself.

Under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, Domscheit-Berg was the effective No. 2 at WikiLeaks and the organisation's most public face after Julian Assange. In this book, he tells the backstories of leaks ranging from the Church of Scientology and the Afghanistan and Iraq War logs to Cablegate, and reveals the evolution, finances, and inner tensions of the whistleblower organisation, beginning with his first meeting with Assange in December 2007.

Daniel Domscheit-Berg is a computer scientist who worked in IT security prior to devoting himself full-time to WikiLeaks. He was born in 1978. After finishing school he worked as a programmer for the global market-leader EDS (Electronical Data Systems), before becoming involved with WikiLeaks in 2007. Today, he and other former WikiLeaks people are working on a more transparent secret-sharing website called OpenLeaks, to be launched in early 2011. He lives in Berlin with his family.

Review Tesxt Courtesy: http://www.scribepublications.com.au/book/insidewikileaks, http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10068893-inside-wikileaks