Like other people, I am both intrigued and worried about the WikiLeaks.org project.
Perhaps some people will choose to discuss the ethical and technical issues on this blog , in public.
As the leaking of the internal development list, by John Young at Cryptome, shows, all the PGP and Tor, and Freenet etc. technology which the project seems to be planning to use, is not, in itself, sufficient to guarantee to protect anonymous sources.
One has to ask why the WikiLeaks.org team chose to register the domain names wikileaks.org, .cn and .info, but not the shorter wikileak domain names.
It would also help if their DNS resolved "http://wikileaks.org" to point to the same web page as "http://www.wikileaks.org" - the shorter URL does not seem to go anywhere at all, at present.
Is this no longer under the control of the wikileaks,org team now that John Young, the Registrant, seems to have withdrawn his participation in the scheme.
Will he re-route any web or email traffic to these domain names elsewhere, or to /dev/null ?
SInce what they are trying to establish is a global trusted brandname, this could have done with some more thought and advice.
Once their software is available and is actually seen to work as intended, I may decide to participate in the project, in a small way, and will then point WikiLeak.org to the WikiLeaks.org project home page or to one of the planned network of distributed node servers.
However, currently, there are still many unanswered questions about this project, some of which will be discussed in future blog posts.