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Wikileaks is a purported untraceable website running on modified Mediawiki software which will allow whistleblowers to anonymously release government and corporate documents, allegedly without possible retribution. The site and its project were themselves secret, pre-launch, until their existence was leaked and disclosed on the Cryptome website[1]. The site in part is being developed by Chinese government dissidents. According to the Wikileaks website, their main targets for leaked disclosure are the former Soviet bloc, sub-Saharan Africa, and Middle Eastern nations, but they expect it to be used for leaks of information about Western governments and corporations.[2] All current staff, developers, or employees of Wikileaks are thought to be secret and unidentified as of January 2007.[3]
According to a Wikileaks official named "Julian Assange", the site was planned to go live in March 2007 but was unprepared for the media attention its ahead-of-schedule disclosure generated. Their advisory board includes members of the expatriate Russian and Tibetan refugee communities, reporters, a former US intelligence analyst, and cryptographers. There are no formal links between Wikileaks and the Wikimedia Foundation. [4] The website has stated that they have over 1,000,000 classified and internal documents already that they are preparing to publish[5]. They have purportedly already done so with one document said to be written by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys of Somalia's radical Islamic Courts Union.[6] They also posted an analysis which they claim proves it authenticity.[7]
According to the group, Wikileaks will be "an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis."[8] Wikileaks developers have stated that there will be checks in place to keep the "completely anonymous" system from being flooded with false documents, ****, spam, and related things. All users will be able to comment on all documents, analyze them, and identify false material.[3]
According to a Wikileaks official named "Julian Assange", the site was planned to go live in March 2007 but was unprepared for the media attention its ahead-of-schedule disclosure generated. Their advisory board includes members of the expatriate Russian and Tibetan refugee communities, reporters, a former US intelligence analyst, and cryptographers. There are no formal links between Wikileaks and the Wikimedia Foundation. [4] The website has stated that they have over 1,000,000 classified and internal documents already that they are preparing to publish[5]. They have purportedly already done so with one document said to be written by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys of Somalia's radical Islamic Courts Union.[6] They also posted an analysis which they claim proves it authenticity.[7]
According to the group, Wikileaks will be "an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis."[8] Wikileaks developers have stated that there will be checks in place to keep the "completely anonymous" system from being flooded with false documents, ****, spam, and related things. All users will be able to comment on all documents, analyze them, and identify false material.[3]
http://www.wikileak.org/
This is going to cause some trouble.
