WikiLeaks protects its information with threat of huge monetary penalty

To make sure that none of its treasure of leaked information is leaked, WikiLeaks is asking its associates to sign a nondisclosure agreement that the leaked information is solely the property of WikiLeaks, and should anyone leak this commercial property, they would be subject to a penalty of 12 million pounds or almost $20 million.

WikiLeaks has yet to sell any of its information and an attempt to auction off e-mails of an aide to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez flopped. -db

From Wired, May 11, 2011, by Kevin Poulsen.

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