"I can confirm that we will operate under the name, 'OpenLeaks'" said former members of Icelandic origin WikiLeaks, Herbert Snorrason, told AFP. Unlike WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks will not publish leaked documents directly via the media leaked it online but make available to the media partner.
"This is not a website that will collect material and publish it but rather a system provider for the people to be able to upload information anonymously," said Snorrason.
Domain name openleaks.org on Friday is still a blank page with the logo of a circular arrow and the announcement "coming soon!".
"OpenLeaks a technology project that aims to become a service provider for third parties who want to receive material from anonymous sources," said Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a former spokesman for WikiLeaks in Germany to a Swedish public television (SVT) obtained by AFP.
Founded in 2006, personally disgrace WikiLeaks website into the media spotlight this year when the leaked key documents about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. That site also caused a diplomatic storm this month when the wire was churning out thousands of secret U.S. embassy. One of the founders WikiLeaks, a former hacker Julian Assange, is currently in prison in London and is awaiting an extradition hearing scheduled to Sweden. In that country, he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual violence.
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