If you were Satoshi would you tell someone who has a habit of publishing every scrap of information he has to the entire world no matter what the comeback is? He would be the last person on the planet I'd tell.
I don't think you understand Assange.
Assange didn't publish the identity of the people who left Wikileaks along with Daniel Domscheit-Berg to found OpenLeaks, even through the OpenLeaks folks took a harddrive of valuable data with them that they afterwards deleted.