THE MAN WHO BLEW THE WHISTLE ON ASSANGE

DANIEL Domscheit-Berg is a computer scientist who worked in information security before joining the internet-based whistleblower WikiLeaks full-time. He and other former WikiLeaks staff plan a new secrets website, OpenLeaks, to be launched later this year. He lives in Berlin with his family.

Under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, Domscheit-Berg operated as No 2 at WikiLeaks, founded in 2006. He first met founder Julian Assange in December 2007. He quit WikiLeaks in September last year, alleging insufficient transparency and opposing Assange's degree of control.