Julian Assange and WikiLeaks needs no introduction, what may be left to achieve is a “Nobel Peace Prize” or an Oscar (like Ben Hur, or Titanic). Right now, offering this honor is more significant for the reputation of the award giving institutions.

WikiLeaks has changed the way we will look into the state/national/corporate governance, and the way sensitive information is shared online. WikiLeaks has proven a daring collaborative leaking model, what I call “Assange Model”, by grabbing the biggest-of-world by their balls and then holding on to them. This will shape the next big thing on the internet called Wikileaking (Just like personal blogs/blogging). Although, Wikileaking is not a word in any language, but it is a newly coined term that is in the process of entering the common use (neologism).

Wikileaking: Wash the “dirty lining” in the public, “Do not Keep Quite, Please”, “Mankind before Land kind”, “Do ask do tell”,” No liar left behind”, and “We the People, reserve the right to screw anyone”.

Wikileaking Framework

Leaking sensitive and sensational information on the Internet is not a new thing; it’s been done for decades. But it was relatively harder than what it is now. Every genuine informant has to answer some questions to him:

Where to leak? Is the platform safe? Can I get away? Will I be shielded? What if they come to know? What if I was wrong? They are stronger and well connected. Law never kept Blogger at par with Journalist. Blabbering on (social networking) can cost job. Internet usage can be traced.

Now you have some streamlined answers. Platforms and architectures are cropping up to address secrecy issues, such that, Wikileaking can enter mainstream internet.

Frameworks/applications like WordPress and bloggers.com (many more) were the major reason behind the rapid success of blogging. On the similar path, GlobaLeaks is a project to create worldwide distributed “Leak Amplification Network” supporting whistle-blowers all around the world. The final goal is to reach a network of independent organizations running GlobaLeaks Amplification Routers allowing anonymous submission of sensitive material to media (journalists, bloggers, activists, unions) at local/regional level.*

Wikileaking Websites:

Many websites are launched in recent months inspired by WikiLeaks (Follow on Twitter). These websites cater to the specific markets like Environment/Country/Region (NYT). This Buzz is similar to that of initial days of blogging. They are moving slow like an elephant but once they enter mainstream they will gain unstoppable momentum.

One such whistle blowing site is OpenLeaks. It is run by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Julian Assange’s former No.2 at WikiLeaks and a previous member of German hacker group the Chaos Computer Club. Germany based “Green Leaks” has more environmental friendly motto: “We publish big and little stories. Sometimes information will be of international significance, where it deals with climate-change, shared territory such as the oceans, international projects or the conduct of multi-national corporations and government.”

One more environment friendly leaker, EnviroLeaks “encourages ordinary people with access to embarrassing and potentially disruptive information, to submit it for review, with the intention of it being published as a publicly accessible article”.

The Balkans are not keeping secrets anymore “BalkanLeaks”. Russia’s answer to WikiLeaks- RuLeaks. How can Brussels stay behind ? BrusselsLeaks. Indonesia leaks.  Tunisia Leaks, and lot more.

Media like Al Jazeera has launched ““Al Jazeera Transparency Unit”,
and the New York Times are also setting up pipelines for leaking online information. Soon, every mainstream newspaper will have an online Wikileaking platform, same way as blogs.

Everyone has something to leak. Netizens have email address, blog, website, social networking profile in few years a Wikileaking profile will also be added, but it will be secretive. Credit for all this go to the spicy model by Julian Assange, “The father of Wikileaking phenomenon”.

Disclaimer:

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