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On Sunday, a transparency organisation began publishing an archive of data from Wikileaks in an act of online preservation. Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoS, was inspired to archive the website after Julian Assange’s plea agreement with the US, which stipulated that he would delete any unpublished classified material that Wikileaks has yet to publicise. The archive is also intended to improve accessibility, since the WikiLeaks website is often difficult to navigate and has many broken links. Archiving all the data involves republishing information that has been controversial, even for Assange, including medical information. The founder of DDoS told 404 Media: “While we likely would have handled that data differently than WikiLeaks did, the data is out there and we shouldn’t act as censors for it.” Governments take note: DDoS plans to become a larger repository of data leaks and information.
