Former WikiLeaks Colleagues Forming New Web Site, OpenLeaks - NYTimes.com

Sign of the times

OpenLeaks is not the only site inspired by the success of WikiLeaks. Dozens of smaller leaking sites — some focused on specific topics, like the environment, or particular regions — have sprung up in recent months with the aim of encouraging whistleblowers.

It is, perhaps, the realization of a vision Mr. Assange outlined on his blog in 2006, the year he founded WikiLeaks. He imagined a world where “mass leaking” left unjust governments “exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance.”

Former WikiLeaks Colleagues Forming New Web Site, OpenLeaks - NYTimes.com