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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...

WikiLeaks not only has to fend off attacks from the outside, it also has dissension from within to grapple with, as former staffers have branched off to form their own whistleblower platform, Openleaks, expected to go live Monday. The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter published an account of the upcoming launch, using information from an unnamed source. It quotes that source: "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."

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. .............. "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,"