Openleaks Goes Live

Underholdning writes "Ars technica leaks the story of OpenLeaks launching. OpenLeaks is an alternative to WikiLeaks, with a few differences. 'OpenLeaks will not accept or publish documents on its own platform, but rather create many "digital dropboxes" for its community members, each adapted to the specific needs of our members so that they can provide a safe and trusted leaking option for whistleblowers.' Time will show if this will live next to WikiLeaks, or they will compete. For more information, check out the OpenLeaks website."

Egypt just turned off all Internet access

[h00manist]

Egyptian authorities apparently pulled the backbone plugs. [twitter.com] As a result of the Egyptians protesting, because the Tunisians protested, because of a Wikileaked document, from a US Embassy saying the truth - there was an old, fucked up dictatorship, that is no more. Egyptians have their work laid out for them.

Re:When will they learn?

[Anonymous Coward]

Several of these new sites are honeypots for various governments.

Where's the Open ?

[Haedrian]

There's nothing really open about openleaks. Its more a dropbox which is then piped to news agents.

Should have called it closed-except-to-journalistleaks , but I expect the domain was already taken.

Re:When will they learn?

[TheRaven64]

My least favourite is the war on alcohol, because after vast amounts of wasted money and a dramatic increase in organised crime, politicians still refuse to learn any lessons from the outcome.