Dissident staff members at WikiLeaks, led by that site’s former spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg, reportedly plan to launch a spinoff to be named “OpenLeaks.” This may be unveiled as early as next week. Like WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks will let whistle-blowers anonymously submit information to a secure online dropbox. Unlike WikiLeaks, however, it won’t dump all that information directly onto the public Web; instead, it will let contributors designate any media or non-governmental organizations they select to check the facts, redact sensitive information, and publish it themselves.
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OpenLeaks: A Kinder, Gentler WikiLeaks?
Posted by: Richard Adhikari December 13, 2010 06:00 AMDissident staff members at WikiLeaks, led by that site’s former spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg, reportedly plan to launch a spinoff to be named “OpenLeaks.” This may be unveiled as early as next week. Like WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks will let whistle-blowers anonymously submit information to a secure online dropbox. Unlike WikiLeaks, however, it won’t dump all that information directly onto the public Web; instead, it will let contributors designate any media or non-governmental organizations they select to check the facts, redact sensitive information, and publish it themselves.