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Wikileaks Plans To Make the Web Leakier

Posted by kdawson on from the assuming-the-risk dept.

itwbennett writes "At the Hack In The Box conference in Kuala Lumpur, Wikileaks.org announced a plan to enable newspapers, human rights organizations, criminal investigators, and others to embed an 'upload a disclosure to me via Wikileaks' form onto their Web sites that would give potential whistleblowers the ability to leak sensitive documents to an organization or journalist they trust over a secure connection. The news or NGO site would then get an embargo period in which to analyze the material and write the story, after which Wikileaks would make the leaked material public. At the same time, the receiver would have greater legal protection, says Julien Assange, an advisory board member at Wikileaks 'We will take the burden of protecting the source and the legal risks associated with publishing the document,' said Assange. 'We want to get as much substantive information as possible into the historical record, keep it accessible, and provide incentives for people to turn it into something that will achieve political reform.'"

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  1. Re:Political reform? by Raul654 · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Anything leaked is leaked deliberately with a concrete reasoning behind it. " - This is not true at all

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    To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
    --E.C. Stanton
  2. Re:Awesome! by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because *clearly* the whistleblower is at fault for bringing nefarious information to light. *rolls eyes*

  3. Straw Man by ITMagic · · Score: 5, Informative

    Everything should be published. Obama's travel schedule/routes, secret codes, locations, troop movements, etc. Everything...

    This is a straw man fallacy, and completely irrelevant to the discussion, or to the purpose of Wikileaks.

    Go to the about wikileaks and have a read. Look at the slashdot article itself. Both use the work 'embargo'. The Advisory Board, and the staff of Wikileaks, are not going to release the information you are suggesting. It's not the purpose to reveal future troop movements, travel plans or secret codes. They reveal what has happened in the past, and how it was ignored, or hushed up, and allowed to continue.