What hath WikiLeaks wrought? Besides all the polarization and controversy - OpenLeaks. In, How OpenLeaks is Likely to Work, the Read Write Web blog doesn't tell us too much, but it doesn't seem like there's much to tell yet:

In September, a number of prominent personnel from the whistle-blower site Wikileaks, left that organization. They argued that its founder, Julian Assange, was autocratic and heedless of the safety of those whose names appeared in the leaks the organization released. He also over-focused on the U.S. and his political goals were untenable. In November, the group announced it was creating a rival organization, to be called OpenLeaks.

Daniel Domscheit-Berg has been described as the former number two man at WikiLeaks, but seems that might be like being second-in-command in Mordor. He has complained about the lack of transparency, "In these last months, the organization has not been open any more, it lost its open-source promise ..."

Domscheit-Berg has said he hopes for the organization to be more transparent than Wikileaks, a notoriously closed system, though it is uncertain how that transparency will be achieved.

Assange has written about Wikileaks as a government-impeding service, arguing that decreasing the efficiency of the current system of many governments will bring about a new, presumably better, system. OpenLeaks has made no such statements and seems to be trying to stay away from imposing either editorial intent or political intent, beyond a belief in the value of transparency, in government as well as other spheres.

Instead of associating with large MSM outlets, OpenLeaks will let the whistleblowers determine the recipients, though how they accomplish that seems undetermined so far.

OpenLeaks will provide whistle-blowers a way to upload leaked documents and to send them to particular recipients, such as newspapers, news channels, radio stations, non profit organizations, labor unions, governmental oversight groups and others. OpenLeaks itself, unlike Wikileaks, will not publish the leaked documents on its site. By-passing the editorial function is intended to keep the organization unencumbered {by} political considerations.

IOW, Whistleblowing for Dummies. Perhaps using a variety of outlets will quell conspiracy theorists.

I suppose we'll eventually see CelebLeaks, PalinLeaks, JoethePlumberLeaks, McLeaks (and a lawsuit), maybe even dagLeaks.

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