WikiLeaks won't be the only document-leaking kid on the block once the competition gets up and running. That's right: several WikiLeaks defectors are reportedly collaborating on a new project that will offer an alternative leaking venue to whistleblowers who wish to remain anonymous, led by former WikiLeaks hotshot Daniel Domscheit-Berg.

Domscheit-Berg and several others recently left WikiLeaks due to disagreements with WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange, with Domscheit-Berg telling German magazine Der Spiegel that Assange had accused him of being "disobedient and disloyal to the project." He left the organization in September, and has since gathered a group of followers to launch a site of their own. WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that a "technician" plus two or three others had also left to join Domscheit-Berg.

As for the news about more competition, WikiLeaks is maintaining a poker face. Hrafnsson told the Journal that WikiLeaks wishes the new group luck, and said that "It would be good to have more organizations like WikiLeaks."

The group is not only working on a new site to compete with WikiLeaks, it's also apparently working on new technology to turn the gears behind it, according to unnamed sources. There are no public details as of yet about what that technology might encompass, though.

WikiLeaks has been under fire since day one for publishing top secret documents on sensitive topics like the US war in Afghanistan, but it has come under even more criticism in recent months for being slow to publish a backlog of documents and not properly redacting what has been published, possibly putting those named in harm's way. In fact, WikiLeaks cited the backlog last week when it ceased accepting new documents, with Assange saying that the site was struggling with resources.