Perhaps legal fees? They have volunteers, but I imagine there are more fees than just lawyers when you defend so many legal attacks. Although I would like to know more as well.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1023663
They never even replied to my email offering help, or to anyone else as far as I can tell. I'm still a supporter of their mission, but the organization seems pretty flakey.
I wonder if someone on the inside could leak something somewhere?
>BOX 4080, University of Melbourne
>Victoria 3052, Australia
Yeah, that could explain a few things.
Whistle blowing is often a very grey business. My actions may be somewhat but obviously illegal, and the bag guys may not be very but not so obviously so. It can backfire.
This is why the meta-layer is important. I just send one email, and I'm pretty secure that my actions are confidential. Worst case scenario is they decide not to publish it, in which case i'm not really worse of. If I want, I can try again with a classic news outlet.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080430123942/http://wikileaks.o...
Some of their major scoops include:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080207141628/wikileaks.org/wiki...
Perhaps. Remember, the IA embargoes their copies for 6-9 months as part of the arrangement with AltaVista.
It was proposed that WikiLeaks should provide an untraceable payment method.
So does that mean the staff costs $400,000? If so, it's basically like they're saying "hey can you also pay for the 4 of us to live pretty for the year too?"
Edit: To be clear, I don't know how many people are in said staff.
