Wikileaks Now Has A Competitor

The website for WiiLeaks-competitor OpenLeaks.org, which launched Thursday after information about the site was itself leaked. OpenLeaks

WikiLeaks Rival Launches New Secret-Spilling Site -- Washington Post

DAVOS, Switzerland -- A former member of the group that created WikiLeaks has launched a rival website with the aim of giving whistleblowers more control over the secrets they spill.

Daniel Domscheit-Berg says the new platform called OpenLeaks will allow sources to choose specifically who they want to submit documents to anonymously, such as to a particular news outlet.

He told reporters Friday that the site will begin testing in several weeks and hopes it will be fully operational later this year.

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More News On OpenLeaks

OpenLeaks Site Leaked, Forces Premature Launch of WikiLeaks Rival -- FOX News
OpenLeaks Site Leaked Before Launch -- Information Week
WikiLeaks rival goes live as editors turn on Assange -- Sydney Morning Herald
Wikileaks breakaway site Openleaks gets leaked -- Inquirer
WikiLeaks rival website launches -- Inquirer
WikiLeaks alternative OpenLeaks goes live -- Ars Technica

My Comment: I wish them luck.

Can The Pentagon Be Made WikiLeak-Proof?

Darpa’s Star Hacker Looks to WikiLeak-Proof Pentagon -- The Danger Room

Tomorrow’s WikiLeakers may have to be sneakier than just dumping military docs onto a Lady Gaga disc. The futurists at Darpa are working on a project that would make it harder for troops to funnel classified material to WikiLeaks — or to foreign governments. And that means if you work for the military, get ready to have your web, email and other network usage monitored even more than it is now.

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My Comment: Call me skeptical, but unless the Pentagon decides to develop and construct their own independent internet .... hackers and groups like Wikileaks will always be a problem.

Profile: Julian Assange, The Man Behind Wikileaks

Julian Assange

From Times Online:

They seek him here, they seek him there, but the founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks is as elusive as a modern-day pimpernel.

Julian Assange dreamt that one day the internet would streamline the leaking of state secrets. Last week his whistleblowers’ website posted its most explosive leak yet: a secret video shot by an American attack helicopter of Iraqi civilians and a Reuters photographer being mown down, apparently in cold blood.

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