Wikileaks — Anonymous Whistle-Blowing

too_old_to_be_irate writes to tell us about a site that word got out on before they were ready. Wikileaks aims to be an anonymous and uncensorable repository of leaked documents, posted for commentary by interested parties. It's expected to go live in a month or two. From the site: "Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Our primary interests are oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to those in the west who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their own governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact; this means our interface is identical to Wikipedia and usable by non-technical people. We have received over 1.1 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources."

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[User 956]

Wikileaks aims to be an anonymous and uncensorable repository of leaked documents, posted for commentary by interested parties.

They were going to name it LawyerMagnet.com, but that was already taken by a file-sharing service.

Re:Baloney

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, you couldn't have picked two worse examples. There is a huge amount of documentable and verifiable evidence on both the 9/11 conspiracy and moon landing hoax theories. In fact, the amount of contrary evidence exceeds "real" evidence for both.

Re:One word was missing - verifiable

[s20451]

I do wonder how they'll sort the facts from the fud.

What part of "wiki" do you not understand? How else would today's children know that the elephant population is skyrocketing and President Taft was eaten by wolves?

If there's anything that Web 2.0 has taught us, it's that you can't believe what you read in newspapers, but everything posted anonymously to the internet is true.