I saw news about Openleaks on finnish Yle newsite. Source was swedish Dagens Nyheter. Quick search on google gave result only of one Slashdot.org article, which referred to same Dagens Nyheter story. Openleaks.org was tweeting 44 mins ago, "site coming soon". So nothing else, only source being swedish Dagens Nyheter and right now I really wouldn't believe anything what swedish media is trying to push out regarding Wikileaks.
This thing smells and pretty badly. If there was rumours about WikiLeaks being CIA operation, more likely I would bet my money that Openleaks really is something fishy, related to CIA operations. Why Dagens Nyheter article is written in english, since they normally write in swedish? Use google translate for reading comments there, most of them are in swedish and comments are really suspicious about the whole news.
Why Wikileaks group would split right now? There is nearly 1,200,000 supporters on Facebook and everything is going forward, despite of US goverment enormous pressure.
So... I would say, Openleaks is hoax, don't believe in it.
http://www.openleaks.org - Who is query leads to Berlin, Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagens_Nyheter - DN is biggest newspaper in Sweden.
That's what I thought..
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/07/18665978.php
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In a recent interview with the German daily Die Tageszeitung, former WikiLeaks spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg said he and other WikiLeaks dissidents are planning to launch their own whistleblowers' platform to fulfil WikiLeaks's original aim of “limitless file sharing.” [3]
Mr Domscheit-Berg, who is about to publish a book about his days 'Inside WikiLeaks', accuses Assange of acting as a “king” against the will of others in the organisation by “making deals” with media organisations that are meant to create an explosive effect, which others in WikiLeaks either know little or nothing about. [4]
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link to referred Die Tageszeitung article:
http://bit.ly/hJJTvV
openleaks.org is registered to Berlin, where Domscheit-Berg lives.
So... it seems Openleaks is really happening. Also other Leaks-sites are starting up.
PirateLeaks in Czech Republic, article in radio.cz: http://bit.ly/fHl6ts
More... so Openleaks is targeted for anyone interested, could be press or could be independent journalist or blogger.
ReplyDelete"Was planen Sie?
Wir arbeiten an einem dezentralen System von sicheren elektronischen Briefkästen mit dem Namen Openleaks. Damit wollen wir sicherstellen, dass jeder Verlag, jedes Medienhaus, jede NGO, jeder kritische freie Journalist einen digitalen Briefkasten bekommen kann, zu dem Whistleblower Informationen und Dokumente schicken können, ohne Gefahr zu laufen, entdeckt zu werden.
Warum können diese Leute nicht einfach eine E-Mail schicken?
E-Mails sind alles andere als anonym, sie lassen sich einfach zurückverfolgen. Wenn Sie das nicht wollen, müssen Sie einen immensen Aufwand treiben: Sie müssen in ein Internet-Café gehen, sich bei einem freien E-Mail-Provider anonym anmelden und dürfen dann nicht vergessen, im Internet-Café bar zu bezahlen. Diese ganze Komplexität erzeugt Unsicherheit und schreckt die Leute ab, Informationen weiterzugeben. Wir würden die Barriere so niedrig legen, dass der Einzelne wenig Fehler machen kann und es einfach wird, sicher Dateien zu übertragen."
http://www.freitag.de/politik/1049-verrat-an-dem-wof-r-wikileaks-stehen-sollte
We'll know for sure if it's a honeypot once we get the benign information.
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