How Wikileaks became a whistleblowers' haven - tech - 27 July 2010 - New Scientist

How Wikileaks became a whistleblowers' haven - tech - 27 July 2010 - New Scientist: "The release of 90,000 leaked US intelligence documents about the war in Afghanistan has thrown Wikileaks into the spotlight as never before." In 2006 a loose association of anti-censorship activists, lawyers and internet experts realised that the combination of the internet and sophisticated new anonymity tools could create a whistleblowers' haven where sensitive documents could be posted without fear of reprisal.