Posted on 12/13/2010 11:08:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
That certainly didn’t take long. The former number two at Wikileaks, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, has said that he will launch the next-generation of leaking software (I guess you’d call it software) in the “coming months.” It’s to be called Openleaks, and it will try to fix some of the problems associated with the Wikileaks model, namely centralization.
Unlike Wikileaks, Openleaks will be a “conduit” of information rather than a publisher of information (it “aims to provide the technological means to organizations and other entities around the world to be able to accept anonymous submissions in the forms of documents or other information,” said Domscheit-Berg. Whereas Wikileaks receives information, vets it, then released it on its site, Openleaks will simply exist to pass information along. It’ll be up to other organizations, like NGOs and “other interested entities,” not to mention traditional news outlets, to vet everything.
One of the big things that Openleaks will do away with is any sort of person becoming synonymous with it. When you think of Wikileaks you naturally think of Julian Assange, which is not how Openleaks wants to go about doing things. It doesn’t want a public “face” lest ego get involved, nor does it want any perceptible single point of failure.
That’s why Domscheit-Berg and others originally left Wikileaks, that it became too much about Wikileaks itself (and Assange, as it were) than about the information the site was publishing.
Openleaks will establish some sort of foundation in Germany to help build its legitimacy.
In other Wikileaks news, The Guardian, which is pretty much the go-to place for English-language Wikileaks news, has a lengthy story about the people behind the denial of service attacks against companies like Amazon and MasterCard. Worth a read if you have a minute. (And lol at The Guardian for using Colloquy for IRC—real men use X-Chat.)
Maybe they will leak some confidential Wiki-leaks memos...
What does registering a Domain Name cost per year?
All you need is a hosting service and the ability to pay for bandwidth.
And, should your content be objectionable and subject to being brought down by hackers or by law enforcement, a network of mirror sites might cushion the blow.
Ain’t technology kool?
I also expect that WikiLeaks will come to a screeching halt right around the time that Obama's successor takes office, whichever party he/she is from.
I also expect that a few individuals associated with WikiLeaks will mysteriously disappear from the face of the earth, forever.
One of the big things that Openleaks will do away with is any sort of person becoming synonymous with it. When you think of Wikileaks you naturally think of Julian Assange, which is not how Openleaks wants to go about doing things. It doesn’t want a public “face” lest ego get involved, nor does it want any perceptible single point of failure.
Question those who say "question authority". Who funds them? What's their agenda? Why do they target good while giving evil a pass and even secrets that aid terrorists?
$10 for 3 years on a domain, and you don’t even have to purchase a host. I run my webserver off of an old desktop running Linux.
Great, just what we need /sarc
Obviously trying to stop things from leaking via the internet is a pretty futile endeavor. Government’s time better spent addressing their crappy internal information security.
“Domscheit”??? Maybe my German is a little rusty, but if this was “Dumscheiss” it would translate to “Dumb Sh_t.” Are we sure this isn’t a gag?
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