Flying Pig Airways: Questions for Julius Baer
dan tynan on Feb 29 2008 at 5:41 am | Filed under: Da Web, Julius Baer + Wikileaks, Privacy
It’s like an itch you can’t help scratching — or at least I can’t. Yesterday’s press release by the Bank Julius Baer’s PR minions left me with more questions than answers. So last night I shot off a few queries to the crack PR team, just to see if they will respond.
I really don’t expect an answer to these, but you never know. And if they do respond, I will publish their answers in full as an update to this entry. Here’s what I asked.
1. Whose idea was it to remove the dns listing for wikileaks.org? Was it the bank’s? The judge’s? Or the ISP, Dynadot’s?
2. Did the bank know what effect this would have, ie, effectively removing all of wikileaks’s documents from access via wikileaks.org, not just the ones in question?
3. What are the exact documents in question? The statement refers to confidential bank information being leaked. It also refers to ‘inauthentic’ materials. Which materials does the bank consider authentic?
4. In their correspondence with wikileaks, why did the attorneys for Julius Baer not initially identify the bank as its client, or identify the documents in question?
Stay tuned for further developments. Maybe. — D. T.
