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Ex-WikiLeakers Start Own Service: Openleaks Group plans to be 'messenger' for whistleblowers
By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 10, 2010 12:50 PM CST
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(Newser) – Former workers for the beleaguered WikiLeaks have a new whistle-blowing project, and it’s set to launch Monday, Mashable reports. Openleaks, whose founders left WikiLeaks over differences with Julian Assange, hopes to act “as far as possible” as a “messenger” between whistleblowers and publishers of leaked material. That way, “all editorial control and responsibility rests with the publishing organization,” an insider tells the Swedish news site DN.se.

“As a result of our intention not to publish any document directly and in our own name, we do not expect to experience the kind of political pressure which WikiLeaks is under at this time,” the insider says. “In that aspect, it is quite interesting to see how little of politicians’ anger seems directed at the newspapers using WikiLeaks sources.” The Daily Intel has more on the WikiLeaks rift and its spawn.

A file photo of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
A file photo of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.   (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini, File)
Protesters gather in support of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange in Sydney, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010.
Protesters gather in support of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange in Sydney, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010.   (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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Non-deep-thinker
Dec 10, 2010 10:08 PM CST
Is there anything more fun than sitting around cafe's in foreign cities with one's friends in your youth talking conspiratorially and coming up with crap like this? I really don't think there is. You really feel like you're moving the world and it really means something. It's only crushing 25 years later when you realize it changed nothing and was basically all good times but total bullshit otherwise.
shonangreg
Dec 10, 2010 6:22 PM CST
openleaks.org As of this writing, it is still "Coming soon!"
UncleCoffee
Dec 10, 2010 1:01 PM CST
In other words, OpenLeaks will be a proper online dropbox-style whistle-blowing site without the ego and drama. Sort of like what WikiLeaks could/should/would have been had Assange not realized that the higher his "Internet Rogue" profile was, the more chicks he could score.
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