WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange developed an algorithm last year used to randomly select for release emails hacked from Democratic politicians and staffers, according to a lengthy New Yorker report .
The publishing algorithm, which Assange named “Stochastic Terminator,” helped WikiLeaks publish sets of internal documents and communications, including those of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta, with the goal of making it more difficult for the campaign to “to adjust to the problem, to spin, to create antidote news beforehand,” Assange told the New Yorker’s Raffi Khatchadourian .
Assange explained that the algorithm, which he developed leading up to WikiLeaks’ first release of Podesta’s emails last September, “was built on a random-number generator, modified by mathematical weights that reflected the pattern of the news cycle in a typical week,” Khatchadourian wrote.
“Imagine it this way,” Assange said. “The WikiLeaks tank is coming down the road. You can’t tell when it got on the road, when it is going to get off, how fast it is going, how big it is – because it has a decoy exterior. They know that there are decoy parameters because I say it, and so you never know what’s a decoy and what is not. It kind of paralyzes their thinking.”
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