“We are sitting on 5GB from Bank of America, one of the executive’s hard drives,” Assange said in the Oct. 9, 2009, interview with Computerworld magazine, referring to five gigabytes of data. “To have impact it needs to be easy for people to dive in and search and get something out of it.”
WikiLeaks plans to release “either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents depending on how you define it,” Assange said in a Nov. 11 interview with Forbes, declining to identify the bank from which the documents came."
WikiLeaks plans to release “either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents depending on how you define it,” Assange said in a Nov. 11 interview with Forbes, declining to identify the bank from which the documents came."
WikiLeaks Has Said It Holds Bank of America Documents
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By David Mildenberg
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who told Forbes magazine that he’ll release documents from a U.S. bank next year, said in 2009 that his group had a hard drive from a Bank of America Corp. executive.
“We are sitting on 5GB from Bank of America, one of the executive’s hard drives,” Assange said in the Oct. 9, 2009, interview with Computerworld magazine, referring to five gigabytes of data. “To have impact it needs to be easy for people to dive in and search and get something out of it.”
WikiLeaks plans to release “either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents depending on how you define it,” Assange said in a Nov. 11 interview with Forbes, declining to identify the bank from which the documents came. He said the release would occur early next year and would include “some flagrant violations, unethical practices.”
WikiLeaks.org, a nonprofit group that releases information governments and businesses want to keep confidential, yesterday began posting on its website what it says are secret, confidential or in some cases unclassified U.S. embassy cables written from December 1966 to February 2010.
Five gigabytes can hold about 323,900 pages if saved as Microsoft Word documents or 500,500 pages of e-mails, according to conversion estimates from Reed Elsevier Plc’s Lexis-Nexis.
Mark Stephens, a London attorney for WikiLeaks, didn’t respond to a phone message seeking comment. Scott Silvestri, a spokesman for Bank of America, declined to comment.
To contact the reporter on this story: David Mildenberg in Charlotte at
dmildenberg@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Rick Green at rgreen18@bloomberg.net; David Scheer at dscheer@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: November 30, 2010 15:04 EST
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By David Mildenberg
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who told Forbes magazine that he’ll release documents from a U.S. bank next year, said in 2009 that his group had a hard drive from a Bank of America Corp. executive.
“We are sitting on 5GB from Bank of America, one of the executive’s hard drives,” Assange said in the Oct. 9, 2009, interview with Computerworld magazine, referring to five gigabytes of data. “To have impact it needs to be easy for people to dive in and search and get something out of it.”
WikiLeaks plans to release “either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents depending on how you define it,” Assange said in a Nov. 11 interview with Forbes, declining to identify the bank from which the documents came. He said the release would occur early next year and would include “some flagrant violations, unethical practices.”
WikiLeaks.org, a nonprofit group that releases information governments and businesses want to keep confidential, yesterday began posting on its website what it says are secret, confidential or in some cases unclassified U.S. embassy cables written from December 1966 to February 2010.
Five gigabytes can hold about 323,900 pages if saved as Microsoft Word documents or 500,500 pages of e-mails, according to conversion estimates from Reed Elsevier Plc’s Lexis-Nexis.
Mark Stephens, a London attorney for WikiLeaks, didn’t respond to a phone message seeking comment. Scott Silvestri, a spokesman for Bank of America, declined to comment.
To contact the reporter on this story: David Mildenberg in Charlotte at
dmildenberg@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story: Rick Green at
rgreen18@bloomberg.net; David Scheer at dscheer@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: November 30, 2010 15:04 EST
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