Wikileaks has finally released a leak with some serious impact. It's about apparent corruption by the former Kenyan president on a massive scale, and newspapers all over the world are now writing about it. The report itself reads like the writer is only half literate, but if it's legitimate it has some interesting stuff. I don't find it somewhat hard to believe that a risk consulting agency as fancy as Kroll would write something that poor, even a draft, but then I don't know how these things work. Maybe non-English speakers collect the data and then it's later cleaned up by English speakers.
It's good work though anyway. Perhaps that leak would have been released elsewhere, but the fact that people even use it suggests it's providing value that traditional leak channels don't.
did you manage to meet my friend Mark yet?
he’s got the job of OCRing that document. if you think the person who wrote it didn’t have very good english skills, consider the scannering skills of the person who turned it into a pdf!!
i think it was a hard job.
andrew / 11:37pm / 3 September 2007
Yeah. It was pretty crazily scanned document. I was imagining someone furiously scanning it in while Kenyan hit men burst into the building.
I haven’t met Mark, but given what Wikileaks is like that probably isn’t surprising.
Ryan / 12:10am / 4 September 2007