A former WikiLeaks associate said Tuesday he and a number of other ex-members are preparing to launch an alternative to the whistle-blower website, just days after its latest document dump rocked the world. "We want to set up a system that is different from WikiLeaks," explained 25-year-old student Herbert Snorrason, adding that the project was "built on similar ideas" to those behind the organisation that has released hundreds of thousands of classified US documents in recent months.