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Herbert Snorrason
OpenLeaks
Snorrason is an Icelandic graduate student, historian, journalist, and activist who first became involved with WikiLeaks via a public chat room. As a board member of the Icelandic Digital Freedom Society he invited WikiLeaks representatives to a meeting. Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg accepted his invitation. Following management disagreements with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Snorrason and Domscheit-Berg established OpenLeaks