One of the events that really shook the world in the beginning of this year was the Wikileaks affair. Although it has been in every news and basically everyone at least once heard of it, not much space or time in news is dedicated to this issue nowadays. First shock, surprise and dismay – whether the reason be the act itself or the content of the published documents – faded out and other issues took the prominent place in the news. And what was the aftermath of this whole affair?

Probably the worst consequences is facing Private Bradley Manning, who is suspected to be the source of some of the information disclosed on Wikileaks. After initial charges the prosecution added additional and the soldier is facing life sentence. After being held in insolation, reports were released that he has been cleared to leave insolation and stay with other inmates.

Also Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is still facing charges; not on leaking confidential information but on sexual assault.  After being released from detention in British prison, he will have extradition appeal hearing in July.

Despite Wikileaks are not the first issue addressed in the news and world media the initiative is still alive. Several different documents are released on more or less regular basis. Among the latest were the documents on Guantanamo. Wikileaks also inspired others to start similar initiatives. One such initiative was created by Wall Street Journal. They created so-called SafeHouse. The site that works similarly as Wikileaks site – it enables whistleblowers to confidentially upload documents to the site – was created to enable secure sharing of the information with Wall Street Journal. The site was launched last Thursday and is already facing criticism from web security and privacy experts. The site is not even close to being as secure as is promoted and experts are even warning that it could even compromise the security of the whistleblowers.

Although we don’t hear as much about Wikileaks as when the affair was at its peak, the initiative is still very alive and even encouraged other similar attempts.