{"id":6635,"date":"2010-11-30T07:35:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T11:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6635"},"modified":"2010-12-06T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T15:33:56","slug":"assange-says-next-target-is-a-major-american-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/assange-says-next-target-is-a-major-american-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Assange says next target is a &#8220;major American bank&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/andygreenberg\/2010\/11\/29\/wikileaks-julian-assange-wants-to-spill-your-corporate-secrets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Assange<\/a> talked to <em>Forbes<\/em> about the next big WikiLeaks release of confidential data:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Early next year, Julian Assange says, a major American bank will suddenly find itself turned inside out. Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests for executives\u2019 response or other forewarnings. The data dump will lay bare the finance firm\u2019s secrets on the Web for every customer, every competitor, every regulator to examine and pass judgment on.<\/p>\n<p>When? Which bank? What documents? Cagey as always, Assange won\u2019t say, so his claim is impossible to verify. But he has always followed through on his threats. Sitting for a rare interview in a London garden flat on a rainy November day, he compares what he is ready to unleash to the damning e-mails that poured out of the Enron trial: a comprehensive vivisection of corporate bad behavior. \u201cYou could call it the ecosystem of corruption,\u201d he says, refusing to characterize the coming release in more detail. \u201cBut it\u2019s also all the regular decision making that turns a blind eye to and supports unethical practices: the oversight that\u2019s not done, the priorities of executives, how they think they\u2019re fulfilling their own self-interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Assange talked to Forbes about the next big WikiLeaks release of confidential data: Early next year, Julian Assange says, a major American bank will suddenly find itself turned inside out. Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests for executives\u2019 response or other forewarnings. The data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15,13],"tags":[436,154,644],"class_list":["post-6635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","category-usa","tag-banking","tag-privacy","tag-wikileaks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1J1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6756,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions\/6756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}