Former WikiLeaks Staffer to Launch Alternative OpenLeaks Today

i love that after wikileaks got shut down there are hundreds (if not thousands) of mirror sites. if anyone needs a link..pm me

This is so stupid.

He wants to be a Wikileaks that holds information back from the world and only lets the press see it.

Which would make an excellent business model that is easily corrupted!

let the parties begin

Cool

i likee :)

OpenLeaks: a different kind of transparency?
Paul Marks, Senior Technology Correspondent

By successfully showing how whistleblowers can use computer and internet technology to both leak and publish secret information, Wikileaks looks set to spawn a legion of imitators.
Since mid September, an organisation called Openleaks has been quietly registering web domains around the world and is planning an imminent launch as a rival "leak engine" to Wikileaks - albeit one with a slightly different management ethos and modus operandi. Peopled by former Wikileaks staffers dismayed that the organisation's high-profile founder, Julian Assange, is often at the heart of the story, Openleaks will take a different tack, says one of its founders, Daniel Domscheit-Berg.
Leak submission, presumably, will be similar to Wikileaks: furtive delivery of discs/USB sticks, via the online Tor anonymising network, or even paper documents. But OpenLeaks promises distributed management sans a personality cult - and unlike Wikileaks, it currently plans not to publish every leak it receives. Instead, it will choose relevant media partners with expert subject knowledge and leave it to them to publish stories or video news packages based on them.
That way, the diminutive Openleaks organisation hopes to offload the onerous labour-intensive/expert task of redacting sensitive information (eg names of NATO's anti Taliban collaborators) from documents. But how long that plan will last, given the political slant of newspapers and columnists, remains to be seen.
In addition, region-specific leak sites are springing up. Last week, Indoleaks in Jakarta and BalkanLeaks were established. But as the webmaster of the oldest leak site, John Young of Cryptome.org - set up in 1996 - says: people must beware of all such websites. "Some are in fact run by intelligence agencies hoping to catch whistle-blowers in the act," he told New Scientist a couple of years back.
Organisations are being targetted too - sometimes by themselves. While the EU-independent BrusselsLeaks wants those in-the-know to blow the whistle on EU fraud and corrupt decision making, the EU has itself been running an antifraud whistleblower website of its own since March.
The latter supposedly lets people undertake an anonymised, untraceable dialogue, online, with an EU fraud investigator. The EU's anonymising technology was designed by UK-based military contractor Qinetiq. When I asked how the technology assured anonymity, the EU refused to discuss the matter, saying revealing this at any level could compromise security.  
At the time of the launch, I emailed Julian Assange to ask what he thought of the EU using a military contractor with intelligence community connections to, effectively, defend whistleblowers. He was astonished because Qinetiq has openly hired a CIA chief in the past.
"The former head of the CIA, George Tenet, joined the QinetiQ board in 2006," Assange wrote. "Is the EU totally insane?"
That said, Tor, one of Wikileaks' core source-obfuscation technologies, was developed by security boffins at the Pentagon's research arm, DARPA. So who can you trust?

Good.