One of the organizers of the project, who asked to remain anonymous, said in an interview to the newspaper that their goal is the long term, build a solid platform to support complainants and transparent and at the same time, encourage others to start similar actions. “The short term goal is to complete the technical infrastructure that ensures the organization continues to be governed democratically by all its members, rather than being limited to a group or individual,” he explained. The newspaper said the former partner of the WikiLeaks – Assange – was left because of “management style” of the founder and personal problems that were hindering the work of the team.
The Openleaks will not post information directly received, but will allow the media and other organizations to access the system to disclose internal documents made available through the site. The group will serve as a neutral intermediary, no political agenda, which could minimize the problems with governments.
The news of the opening of Openleaks came amid a troubled period for the WikiLeaks: Julian Assange was arrested in London on charges of sexual abuse, the infrastructure of the site was disconnected by the provider and the donations that fund the site were temporarily blocked by the PayPal site.
The former "number two" man of WikiLeaks, German citizen Mr Domscheit-Berg, is to launch on Monday OpenLeaks. The domain name services for OpenLeaks.org and OpenLeaks.net are thus far provided in Malaysia.
The idea of OpenLeaks is to provide a site where whistle-blowers can anonymously and securely leak information in the public interest, and choose which media organisations that they wish to publish their material.
OpenLeaks thus hopes to avoid some of the controversy and dangers associated with being a direct publisher as WikiLeaks, leaving that role to news publishers.
The idea of OpenLeaks is to provide a site where whistle-blowers can anonymously and securely leak information in the public interest, and choose which media organisations that they wish to publish their material.
OpenLeaks thus hopes to avoid some of the controversy and dangers associated with being a direct publisher as WikiLeaks, leaving that role to news publishers.
OpenLeaks says it will work with other media organisations, something that WikiLeaks was reluctant to do until recently, and then alienated existing independent and alternative news networks on the Internet by working exclusively with only a handful of media organisations, some of which already had a poor reputation.
Criticism of WikiLeaks over the Afghanistan massive file leak has not borne out in reality regarding concern for lives and security of informants, and more recent criticism of the extensive censorship of files leaked concerning Iraq "the Iraq War logs" has partly been muted via the more piece-meal release of U.S. embassy cables, called "Cablegate".
Wikileaks has started releasing classified United States diplomatic cables sent to and from US embassies in countries throughout the world. These cables include orders sent out from the Department of State, embassy reporting about the local governments and details of US government activities in each country.
Wikileaks says it will publish 251,287 cables, originating from 274 embassies and dating from 28th December 1966 to 28th February 2010. Of this total, 15, 652 of the cables are marked Secret, 101,748 Confidential and 133,887 Unclassified, although even the 'unclassified' documents contain sensitive information.
So far over 1,000 have been published, with around 100 being released once each day. While this has now received more wide-spread popular support, governments around the world have become worried, as the cables largely expose their subservient relationships to the United States.
Criticism of WikiLeaks over the Afghanistan massive file leak has not borne out in reality regarding concern for lives and security of informants, and more recent criticism of the extensive censorship of files leaked concerning Iraq "the Iraq War logs" has partly been muted via the more piece-meal release of U.S. embassy cables, called "Cablegate".
Wikileaks has started releasing classified United States diplomatic cables sent to and from US embassies in countries throughout the world. These cables include orders sent out from the Department of State, embassy reporting about the local governments and details of US government activities in each country.
Wikileaks says it will publish 251,287 cables, originating from 274 embassies and dating from 28th December 1966 to 28th February 2010. Of this total, 15, 652 of the cables are marked Secret, 101,748 Confidential and 133,887 Unclassified, although even the 'unclassified' documents contain sensitive information.
So far over 1,000 have been published, with around 100 being released once each day. While this has now received more wide-spread popular support, governments around the world have become worried, as the cables largely expose their subservient relationships to the United States.
OpenLeaks does not see itself as a "competitor" to WikiLeaks, since what it will be doing is fundamentally different. "What we’re aiming at is fundamentally so different that we don’t see it as competition", Domscheit-Berg said.
When Andy Greenberg of Forbes asked WikiLeaks founder, spokesman and editor Julian Assange last month about his thoughts on Domscheit-Berg’s project last month, he also rejected the “competition” idea. “The supply of leaks is very large,” said Assange. “It’s helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It’s protective to us.”
Look for OpenLeaks at www.openleaks.org and www.openleaks.netstarting Monday 13th December, 2010.
When Andy Greenberg of Forbes asked WikiLeaks founder, spokesman and editor Julian Assange last month about his thoughts on Domscheit-Berg’s project last month, he also rejected the “competition” idea. “The supply of leaks is very large,” said Assange. “It’s helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It’s protective to us.”
Look for OpenLeaks at www.openleaks.org and www.openleaks.netstarting Monday 13th December, 2010.
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