Over the course of three years, Wikileaks, the "online clearinghouse for leaked documents", has published some 1.2 million sensitive documents online, Computerworld has reported. Now the company is hatching a new plan to allow newspapers, human rights organisations, criminal investigators and others to embed an "upload a disclosure to me via Wikileaks" form onto their sites - leaking sensitive documents to an organisation or journalist they trust over a secure connection - whilst providing legal protection.

The information will be given to the website which proposed its submission, after Wikileaks has verified and confirmed that the material is legitimate. During this time, the journalist or rights group is encouraged to produce articles based on the information. According to an advisory board member at Wikileaks, Julien Assange, "the embargo period" is crucial, as releasing information without its own story would be futile and not reach a large enough audience to be of use. The final phase will see the publication of the material on the Wikileaks web site after the story has been written and the embargo period lapsed.

Its an exciting concept, yet one which raises various logistical questions; the first being who exactly is going to leak the information?

Secondly, with Wikileaks currently sitting on 5GB of information from a Bank of America executive's hard drive, how is the website going to present this material to ensure maximum impact? As it stands it's a problem developers acknowledge, -and to which there is no concrete solution as of yet.

Source: Computerworld