The business of leaking documents is about to get a little more interesting.  WikiLeaks, the godfather of leak websites, has been hit by a lot of negative publicity lately over the behavior of founder Julian Assange.  Some disgruntled WikiLeaks staff have left the company and are starting OpenLeaks, a rival website also dedicated to leaking confidential documents obtained from government sources.  The gist of the split from WikiLeaks is a difference in personality, says OpenLeaks.org founder Daniel Domscheit-Berg.

“It has weakened the organization,” one of those founders, Daniel Domscheit-Berg said in a documentary that aired on Swedish TV network SVT on Sunday night,  Domscheit-Berg said WikiLeaks has become “too much focused on one person, and one person is always much weaker than an organization.”  Domscheit-Berg added, “If you preach transparency to everyone else, you have to be transparent yourself.  You have to fulfill the same standards that you expect from others, and I think that’s where we’ve not been heading in the same direction philosophically anymore.”

WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson has been very democratic about the defections from Wikileaks, saying of a planned rival group, “the more, the better.”  He added:  “Well, I’m inclined not to talk too much about the people, the few people that have decided that their interest is not with WikiLeaks anymore.  What I hear is that some of the people are contemplating to open up their own website with the same ideal as WikiLeaks and I think that is an excellent idea and I wish them well.”

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