OpenLeaks was created by the former deputy to Assange. Daniel Domscheit-Berg said the intention was to be more transparent than WikiLeaks as "In these last months, the organisation has not been open any more. It lost its open-source promise." It planned to start in early 2011. [Wikipedia]

Openleaks has its own Twitter account, openleaksorg, which has gained almost 2,000 followers. It says that its priorities are "technical infrastructure, neutrality and a strong relationship with journalists... Whistleblowers can send without risk."

"We felt that Wikileaks was developing in the wrong direction," Domscheit-Berg told BBC News. "There's too much concentration of power in one organisation; too much responsibility; too many bottlenecks; too many resource constraints." But he didn't want his team to have to decide what is relevant for publication; that would be up to news organisations.