Wall Street was atwitter late on Monday when WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange, disclosed in a Forbes interview that the organization’s next target was a major American bank, with a major data reveal to come early next year.
Of course, he didn’t specify which bank; Mr. Assange is, among other things, skilled at building up suspense for his organization’s data dumps. But in this case, he may have let the cat out of the bag a year ago.
In an October 2009 interview with Computerworld, Mr. Assange said that he had obtained copious amounts of data from a Bank of America executive’s hard drive. At the moment, for example, we are sitting on 5GB from Bank of America, one of the executive’s hard drives,” he said. “Now how do we present that? It’s a difficult problem. We could just dump it all into one giant Zip file, but we know for a fact that has limited impact. To have impact, it needs to be easy for people to dive in and search it and get something out of it.”
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Of course, he didn’t specify which bank; Mr. Assange is, among other things, skilled at building up suspense for his organization’s data dumps. But in this case, he may have let the cat out of the bag a year ago.
In an October 2009 interview with Computerworld, Mr. Assange said that he had obtained copious amounts of data from a Bank of America executive’s hard drive. At the moment, for example, we are sitting on 5GB from Bank of America, one of the executive’s hard drives,” he said. “Now how do we present that? It’s a difficult problem. We could just dump it all into one giant Zip file, but we know for a fact that has limited impact. To have impact, it needs to be easy for people to dive in and search it and get something out of it.”
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