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Now the board is fiercely criticized within the CCC. For example that Domscheit-Berg had no chance to comment on this or to even counter the allegedly created impression in public before his excommunication. Even if this is not included in the articles of the CCC one could, if such a step is decided on (and I consider that as a mistake), give Daniel the possibility to put down his membership himself. We should be that civilized. demands the well-known CCC-member Felix von Leitner in his blog. The spokespersons of the club didnt want to comment that publicly. Right now there is no official statement by the CCC about the exclusion of Daniel Domscheit-Berg and OpenLeaks. None of the CCC spokespersons will answer questions to this topic at this moment, since the internal debate about the resolution of the board is still ongoing, said Constanze Kurz. Only Frank Riegler talks clearer on the website netzpolitik.org: This sacking is precipitate, inappropriate and deeply emotional instead of well-considered and rational matches my personal opinion very well. Also Andy Mller-Maguhn acknowledges: the CCC spokespersons dont comment because they personally dont agree to this resolution and dont want to comment on it. Massive security breach According to CCC members the real reason for the exclusion would be a conflict about unpublished whistleblower-documents which were taken from Assanges platform by Domscheit-Berg and other WikiLeaks-drop-outs and hold back by them until WikiLeaks plausibly ensures the safety of the persons named in these documents, as Domscheit-Berg says. Mller-Maguhn states he tried to mediate in this conflict in the last months. By now he came to the decision that Domscheit-Berg handles the faces quite flexible and is not trustworthy in my eyes. For example he (Domscheit-Berg) claimed in Freitag that OpenLeaks has no access to the plain text of the leaks taken by the former WikiLeaks activists when they left. This would be untrue. Furthermore Domscheit-Berg would come up repeatedly with ne arguments why he doesnt hand over the datas. When asked about that Domscheit-Berg confirmed that the relevant phrasing in the Freitaginterview was imprecise and slipped through when he authorized it. In fact some of the activists could have theoretically access to the datas but Openleaks wouldnt use the files. The activists want to state that publicly and definitely destroy now all electronic keys OpenLeaks have for this data treasure. Since such keys can be copied as often as desired the destruction of all keys cant be proved. So he thinks about giving an affidavit, says Domscheit-Berg: But I dont want to promise that right now. First I have to talk to a lawyer. Andy Mller-Maguhn, for one, got told by the Openleaks activists months ago that they no longer accept him as an intermediator. The Reason: We gave him a part of the datas, namely the WikiLeaks archive. After that a huge security breach followed which endangered third persons said Domscheit-Berg. Andy Mller-Maguhn didnt want to comment on this accusation before the end of the internal voting of the CCC.