WikiLeaks set to relaunch secure tipster system
WikiLeaks is expected to unveil a new online system on Monday to allow whistleblowers to pass secrets to its website, as Julian Assange tries to reboot his campaign for transparency under a barrage of legal, financial and technical challenges.
For more than a year, WikiLeaks’ electronic submission system has been offline, impeding its mission to blow open government secrets. Mr. Assange and his team have had to “re-engineer from scratch” its submission system because existing security technology “could not be trusted,” he said last month.
But ahead of what WikiLeaks has described as a “dramatic month” in prospect, would-be whistleblowers may need more than a new submission system to reassure them that WikiLeaks can make a big impact and protect its sources. Bradley Manning, the American soldier suspected of passing U.S. government secrets to WikiLeaks, is preparing to appear before a military court at Fort Meade in Maryland next month after 17 months’ incarceration.
