Former second-in-command of whistle blowing site Wikileaks is about to to launch an alternative to the high-profile website.
Daniel Domscheit-Berg left the original site after issues with it’s founder Julian Assange, he plans to launch his new site Openleaks within the next few months. It will allow potential whistle-blowers to anonymously leak data to publishers of their choice.
Mr Domscheit-Berg believes this will address one of the key problems with Wikileaks: We felt that Wikileaks was developing in the wrong direction. There’s too much concentration of power in one organisation; too much responsibility; too many bottlenecks; too many resource constraints.”He said that the team did not want the responsibility of deciding what was or was not relevant and what would be good for the organisation as a whole to publish. “This is the wrong question and should never be asked”.
Unlike Wikileaks, Openleaks will never actually publish or verify material, it will leave that role to newspapers, “NGOs, labour unions and other interested entities”.”We are trying to build a community of various organisations that need or have use for anonymously submitted information,” said former Wikileaks member Herbert Snorrason.
Mr Domscheit said : “Openleaks aims to provide the technological means to organisations and other entities around the world to be able to accept anonymous submissions in the forms of documents or other information. This would form a distributed network of submissions pages across the web, powered by Openleaks technology for keeping sources anonymous and documents secure. Whistle-blowers would be able to submit documents to an organisation’s site, which would then be available for them to use for an exclusive period, specified by the source. If after that time you choose not to publish the document yourself the document will be shared with the rest of the subscribers in the system. If you choose not to publish it, many other parties will receive the document – and we are pretty sure that one of them will publish it.”
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