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OPENLEAKS TO BE LAUNCHED SOON
PanARMENIAN.Net
December 10, 2010 - 18:12 AMT 14:12 GMT
Former WikiLeaks staffer Daniel Domscheit-Berg has always considered
Julian Assange's whistle-blowing site a two-pipe operation: One pipe
takes submissions in from anonymous leakers, another publishes them
out to an uncensorable web site.
But since defecting from WikiLeaks in September and watching the
global controversy build around the secret-spilling organization,
he's taking a different approach with his own leak-focused project:
Keep the anonymous submissions channel. Ditch the controversial and
resource-draining publishing piece altogether.
The German Domscheit-Berg, along with several other former Wikileaks
staffers, plans to launch a website they're calling OpenLeaks as
early as next week, Domscheit-Berg told Forbes in an interview. Like
WikiLeaks, the new site will allow leakers to anonymously submit
information to a secure online dropbox. But unlike its parent site,
it won't publish that information itself. Instead, it will allow the
source to designate any media or non-governmental organizations he or
she chooses and have that information passed on for fact-checking,
redaction and publication. That difference, argues Domscheit-Berg,
will allow OpenLeaks to accomplish much of the transparency achieved by
WikiLeaks, without drawing the same political fury and legal pressure.
"To constrain the power of the site, we're splitting submission from
the publication part. We won't publish any documents ourselves. The
whole field is diversified," says Domscheit-Berg. "No single
organization carries all of the responsibility or all of the workload."
From: A. Papazian
PanARMENIAN.Net
December 10, 2010 - 18:12 AMT 14:12 GMT
Former WikiLeaks staffer Daniel Domscheit-Berg has always considered
Julian Assange's whistle-blowing site a two-pipe operation: One pipe
takes submissions in from anonymous leakers, another publishes them
out to an uncensorable web site.
But since defecting from WikiLeaks in September and watching the
global controversy build around the secret-spilling organization,
he's taking a different approach with his own leak-focused project:
Keep the anonymous submissions channel. Ditch the controversial and
resource-draining publishing piece altogether.
The German Domscheit-Berg, along with several other former Wikileaks
staffers, plans to launch a website they're calling OpenLeaks as
early as next week, Domscheit-Berg told Forbes in an interview. Like
WikiLeaks, the new site will allow leakers to anonymously submit
information to a secure online dropbox. But unlike its parent site,
it won't publish that information itself. Instead, it will allow the
source to designate any media or non-governmental organizations he or
she chooses and have that information passed on for fact-checking,
redaction and publication. That difference, argues Domscheit-Berg,
will allow OpenLeaks to accomplish much of the transparency achieved by
WikiLeaks, without drawing the same political fury and legal pressure.
"To constrain the power of the site, we're splitting submission from
the publication part. We won't publish any documents ourselves. The
whole field is diversified," says Domscheit-Berg. "No single
organization carries all of the responsibility or all of the workload."
From: A. Papazian