OpenLeaks

OpenLeaks

URL	openleaks.org openleaks.net openleaks.rs openleaks.ws
Type of site	Document archive & whistleblower
Available language(s)	English
Launched	January 2011
Alexa rank	153,958 (November 2011[update])[1]

OpenLeaks is a whistleblowing website which has yet to become active. It aims "at making whistleblowing safer and more widespread".^[2]

History

The OpenLeaks project was founded in September 2010 by Daniel Domscheit-Berg.^[3] Domscheit-Berg said the intention of OpenLeaks was to be more transparent than WikiLeaks. "In these last months, the Wikileaks organization has not been open any more. It lost its open-source promise."^[4]

OpenLeaks was supposed to start public operations in early 2011 but despite much media coverage it is still not functioning.

Team members

Openleaks have two public contacts, Daniel Domscheit-Berg and Herbert Snorrason, both previously involved in WikiLeaks.^[3]

Conduit

Instead of publishing the documents, OpenLeaks will send the leaked documents to various news entities or publishers.^[5]

At the time of its announcement, WikiLeaks was facing a number of threats: founder Julian Assange had been arrested in connection with sexual assault charges; the site had issues finding safe DNS and web hosting; and many companies had blocked payment to the site. According to Domscheit-Berg's initial statements, he expected OpenLeaks to bypass WikiLeaks problems by serving only as a safe conduit for whistleblowers to leak information, which would then be passed on to the press, instead of acting as a publisher itself. The organization also intends to be democratically governed, rather than being run by one person or a small group.^[6][7] "Our long term goal is to build a strong, transparent platform to support whistleblowers — both in terms of technology and politics — while at the same time encouraging others to start similar projects," says a colleague wishing to remain anonymous.^[8]

See also

Internet portal

• Accountability
• Freedom of information
• Freedom of the press
• Transparency (social)
• Information security
• Digital rights
• Chilling Effects (group)
• Open society

References

1. ^ "Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/openleaks.org#. Retrieved 14 July 2011. 
2. ^ "OpenLeaks". OpenLeaks. http://www.openleaks.org/. Retrieved 28 January 2011. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "About OpenLeaks". OpenLeaks. http://www.openleaks.org/content/about.shtml. Retrieved 28 January 2011. 
4. ^ Piven, Ben (17 December 2010). "Copycat WikiLeaks sites make waves". Al Jazeera English. http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2010/12/20101216194828514847.html. Retrieved 19 December 2010. 
5. ^ Greenberg, Andy, "WikiLeaks' Stepchildren", Forbes, 17 January 2011, p. 20.
6. ^ Greenberg, Andy (9 December 2010). "Ex-WikiLeaker Explains His Spinoff Group, OpenLeaks". Forbes. http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/12/09/how-openleaks-the-first-wikileaks-spinoff-will-work/. Retrieved 9 December 2010. 
7. ^ Lubin, Gus (9 December 2010). "Key People From Wikileaks Are Ditching "Emperor" Assange To Form A New Site". Business Insider. http://www.businessinsider.com/openleaks-2010-12. Retrieved 11 December 2010. 
8. ^ Carp, Ossi (9 December 2010). ""A new WikiLeaks" revolts against Assange". Dagens Nyheter. http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/a-new-wikileaks-revolts-against-assange-1.1224764. Retrieved 11 December 2010. 

External links

• OpenLeaks
• OpenLeaks official blog

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