• OpenLeaks - a WikiLeaks Rival Site Underway
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[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101210/ap_on_hi_te/eu_wikileaks_rivals[/url] [quote=Associated Press]STOCKHOLM – Wikileaks soon won't be the only secret-spilling game in town. A former co-worker of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to launch a rival website Monday called Openleaks that will help anonymous sources deliver sensitive material to public attention. In a documentary by Swedish broadcaster SVT, due to be aired Sunday and obtained in advance by The Associated Press, former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg said the new website will work as an outlet for anonymous sources. "Openleaks is a technology project that is aiming to be a service provider for third parties that want to be able to accept material from anonymous sources," Domscheit-Berg said rare interviews conducted in Berlin. Ever since WikiLeaks burst on the international news agenda last spring there's been speculation about possible copycat sites. In Berlin, Domscheit-Berg was not available to talk Friday as he was focusing on a book about his time at Wikileaks. SVT reporter Jesper Huor said Openleaks will be launched on Monday from a base in Germany as part of a yet-undisclosed foundation, run by a board of directors. The timing of the new site comes as pressure mounts for both WikiLeaks and its 39-year-old Australian founder Assange after the start of publication of some 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables last month. The WikiLeaks site has come under attack, while Assange, who is now in a British jail fighting extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations, has been threatened. Swiss Postfinance, MasterCard Inc., Visa Inc., PayPal Inc. and others have cut ways to send donations to the group, impairing its ability to raise money. Assange, a 39-year-old former computer hacker from Australia, has denied the Swedish accusations. Domscheit-Berg, who during his time with WikiLeaks often went under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, said he quit the project after falling out with Assange over what he described as the lack of transparency in the group's decision-making process. "If you preach transparency to everyone else you have to be transparent yourself. You have to fulfill the same standards you expect from others, and I think that's where we've not been heading in the same direction philosophically anymore," he said in the documentary. Domscheit-Berg said the main problem was how the WikiLeaks website began handling bigger leaks, such as the disclosures of some 400,000 classified U.S. war files from Iraq and 76,000 from Afghanistan earlier this year. Too many resources went into these disclosures, he said. "I think the wisest thing to do would have been to do this slowly, step by step, to grow the project. That did not happen," he said.[/quote]Oh wow
No originality.
I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
Not this shit again
Yes but do they have a secret underground bunker on Hoth? No they fucking don't.
Open source knockoffs finally prove useful.
Pfffft, we all know Shadow Broker will come and destroy them all.
I remember when they said they were going to do it. This'll be interesting, I'm intrigued how they'll release their leaks.
Hopefully it's easier to download the fucking things.
Eh, if there's more interesting secrets revealed, I'm not complaining.
Take that U.S. Government!
You shouldn't see them as "rivals"... more as redundant collaborators
-snipped and rated Max of S2D agree-
[QUOTE=RayDark;26619712]Hopefully it's easier to download the fucking things.[/QUOTE] Agreed
[QUOTE=imadaman;26619673]I remember when they said they were going to do it. This'll be interesting, I'm intrigued how they'll release their leaks.[/QUOTE] like every man does, in the toilet stupid
How can they possibly be rivals? What are they competing over?
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;26621054]How can they possibly be rivals? What are they competing over?[/QUOTE] Who gets arrested first
I completely agree with these guys.
I know it has been said before, but we really do need a WikiLeaks sub forum.
[QUOTE=-n3o-;26621149]I know it has been said before, but we really do need a WikiLeaks sub forum.[/QUOTE] No. No we don't. We need a secret underground wikileaks Hoth base.
But are they for-profit like Wikileaks?
Same mundane political crap.
[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;26621250]But are they for-profit like Wikileaks?[/QUOTE] Probably, everyone wants to capitulazy on stuff.
Lacking creativity with the name, but as long as it's posting good things I won't mind.
This is probably run by the CIA.
We're moving in the right direction. If whistleblowing sites started popping up like sponges, just like torrent trackers, the sheer numbers would act as a protective force.
DDoS the shit out of it
[QUOTE=johan_sm;26622814]DDoS the shit out of it[/QUOTE] I present to you, a world class twat. You realize they're working towards the same goal, right?
He will be crushed mercilessly by a team of Assagne's trained ninja monkeys. :v:
"No Assanage, *I* will get arrested first!" "Tch, may the best document-leaker win... morally."
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