By now, most of us are familiar with the WikiLeaks website and Julian Assange who runs it. The site recently leaked a large number of documents and was basically forced out of the US. The story of WikiLeaks became bigger than the content they had leaked, a situation which former number two at WikiLeaks Daniel Domscheit-Berg will try to avoid by creating OpenLeaks. The goal is to create a conduit of information and avoid the messenger becoming more important and popular than the message.
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.
OpenLeaks “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.” Rather than being a source of information, OpenLeaks will only be the gateway. A hands-off approach will put the burden of vetting the information on the media and users.
via CrunchGear