WikiLeaks Inspires Imitators

Across Europe, a wave of groups are imitating WikiLeaks' brash, chaotic style of releasing classified documents that embarrass governments and global corporations. The whistle-blowing copycats have many different goals, but they all believe WikiLeaks founder and promoter Julian Assange has made some big mistakes that they hope to avoid. The highest profile imitator is OpenLeaks, a new site founded by a former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg who now believes, unlike Assange, that information should not just be dumped on the Internet. Domscheit-Berg describes his site as a safe-deposit box for leakers and their consumers, a concept major news organizations, including The New York Times, have considered operating to cut out middlemen like Assange.