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OpenLeaks. OpenLeaks (openleaksdotorg) Interview: "We can't demand trust" Interview In an Interview with German weekly "Der Freitag" Openleaks founder Daniel Domscheit-Berg explains why he invites hackers to try to crack his new whistleblowing-platform Der Freitag: Why should we trust Openleaks? Daniel Domscheit-Berg : For the same reasons that you trust some people in your environment – when you can have positive experiences with them, when they can react openly to critical questions and when you can find out about their background. In any case, this is what we're working towards with Openleaks . We don't just want to create transparency, we also want to work transparently. Does this mean that you don't demand people trust Openleaks, but rather hope that people keep tabs on the project?

Yes. The trust of whistle-blowers is, of course, the foundation for our work, but we can't demand it. You are now going public with Openleaks' submission platform for the first time for a couple of days. So you don't yet know if your system is secure? Yes. Could you explain that? OpenLeaks: Schmitt on Toast II — Rixstep Industry Watch. Home » Industry Watch (» The Technological) (» Hall of Monkeys) (» Heroes Banquet) Daniel Domscheit-Berg's expulsion from CCC only 2nd in 30-year history.

BERLIN (Rixstep) — Andy Müller-Maguhn explained to Spiegel Online how he's lost faith in Daniel Domscheit-Berg over the past year. A lot of things simply didn't add up. Müller-Maguhn told Spiegel the CCC board weren't happy with how Domscheit-Berg tried to hype his impromptu hacking camp as a sort of 'seal of approval' from the CCC. The CCC were initially inclined to trust him as he came with good credentials back then - from WikiLeaks. But now the picture's changed. Domscheit-Berg seems adamant to hang onto stolen property he won't even consistently admit he actually stole.

But Domscheit-Berg wouldn't even agree to that. 'But now I doubt Domscheit-Berg's integrity. Müller-Maguhn tells Spiegel. Does Even His Hairdresser Know for Sure? But it's just how Domscheit-Berg changes his story all the time. 'That's nonsense', says Müller-Maguhn. Holger_stark: The old cache of unrelease... When you talk too much for Twitter. Wikileaks: We can confirm that the cl... DeletedLeaks: OpenLeaks Founder Daniel Domscheit-Berg Deletes Stolen WikiLeaks Documents. In a story culminating with a tweet from Der Spiegel reporter Holger Stark, it appears OpenLeaks founder Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who defected from WikiLeaks in September, has gone ahead and destroyed at least 3000 documents he took when he left.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has publicly charged that Domscheit-Berg took documents and even sabotaged the submission system, but for the most part this aspect of the conflict between Assange and Domscheit-Berg had been difficult to confirm. But, in the last week, Daniel Domscheit-Berg was run out of the Chaos Computer Camp in Berlin and a couple German news outlets began to pick up on the reality that he was serious about forsaking whistleblowers that risked their lives and submitted documents to WikiLeaks.

Here is the reaction to the destruction of the stolen cache. The hashtag for discussion is #DeletedLeaks. Not surprisingly, Adrian Lamo further demonstrates his mendacity and defends Domscheit-Berg. Amoebadesign: A HUGE insult 2 brave #whi... Jaraparilla: So we now have to assume #... Interview: Daniel Domscheit-Berg presents OpenLeaks » Article » OWNI.eu, Digital Journalism. The news has been widely divulged by the press and reported on the web, but OpenLeaks’ launch – or at the very least its official online presence - should be finalised within this week. Presented as an alternative to WikiLeaks, founded by German Daniel Domscheit-Berg – who, under the name Daniel Schmitt, acted as spokesperson for the organization before being fired in September - the new platform is based on the same premise: allowing anonymous informants to provide sensitive information to the media, ensuring their complete safety throughout the whole process.

Julian Assange’s former lieutenant agreed to enlighten us about his new project. When will OpenLeaks be operational? Everywhere, I’ve read that the site would be launched on Monday (December 13, ed), but it’s a big word. We officially open the platform, but for now, it’s only to present our project. How many people will be working with you, and how will you operate?

For now, we are ten, and the roles are not partitioned. TV - OpenLeaks. Ex-WikiLeaker Explains His Spinoff Group, OpenLeaks - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall. WikiLeaks has altered the leaking game for good. Secrets must be fewer, but better kept | Timothy Garton Ash. Suppose you know a secret that you think should be made public. How do you go about it? Suppose your organisation has secrets you believe must be guarded. What should you do? Suppose you are an editor, blogger or activist, with the whistleblower huffing in your left ear and a government or company puffing in your right. Where do you draw the line? One answer to the first question comes from Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a former member of the WikiLeaks team. His OpenLeaks initiative aims to provide an untraceable "digital dropbox" in which would-be whistleblowers can deposit their digital troves.

As Domscheit-Berg explained it to me when we met earlier this year, the leaker would decide which from a select list of media and NGO partners he or she would like the material to go to. Domscheit-Berg is a tall, thin, intense, almost painfully idealistic young German. I shall be interested to see how OpenLeaks fares. Newspapers, dedicated to openness, fight to keep secret their sources' identity.

Ex-WikiLeaks spokesman criticises Assange's gagging order for staff | Media. Daniel Domscheit-Berg has condemned Julian Assange for demanding workers for the website sign 'confidentiality agreements'. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters A former WikiLeaks spokesman has condemned Julian Assange for demanding that staff for the whistleblowing website sign a gagging order that imposes a penalty of up to £12m on anyone who breaks it.

German activist Daniel Domscheit-Berg said that in imposing the draconian confidentiality agreement on its employees WikiLeaks was behaving too much like the governments and businesses it purports to expose. "WikiLeaks has become what it despises: a repressive organisation, using restrictive contracts to gag its staffers, cultivating intransparency and unaccountability," Domscheit-Berg said in an email to Reuters. Domscheit-Berg, who was once one of Assange's closest associates, said he felt "sorry ... for all those new staffers that had no idea what they were getting into" in working for WikiLeaks.