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    Re: Direct-to-newspaper 'dropbox' leak projects: are they safe? Archived Message

    Posted by David Macilwain on August 27, 2019, 12:27 am, in reply to "Direct-to-newspaper 'dropbox' leak projects: are they safe?"

    Thanks margo. INteresting point at the end of Greenberg's article, suggesting a partisan position:

    Still, Assange fails to mention another "direct-to-newspaper" leak site: OpenLeaks, the one being launched by his old associate, Daniel Domscheit-Berg. If all goes according to plan, OpenLeaks would solve both the security problem and allay sources' concerns that leaks might not be published. Domscheit-Berg, a security guru associated with the Chaos Computer Club and a former staffer at IT giant EDS, has said that OpenLeaks is building its own anonymous submissions technology. And the site will allow sources to give newspapers a deadline for their publications of documents. “If a newspaper doesn’t publish it, it will be shared,” Domscheit-Berg told me in December. “They can’t just put it in a drawer.”

    Open anything raises my suspicions - Open source investigation, Open Information Partnership.. Open Democracy....

    Interestingly something similar appeared on the ABC recently in connection with the story on arms shipments to the UAE exposed by Dylan Welch of the ABC that I talked about in my last article on Iran-Yemen intelligence sharing.
    Welch appeals in that article for information, provided through Signal or a secure email address. I've yet to write to him about that story, which has disappeared from view as soon as it surfaced, but I can't see that it has the ABC's stamp of approval, even though it is "ABC investigations unit".
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-25/australian-company-sending-weapons-systems-directly-to-uae/11322974

    Of course the information that WE have is NOT "closed", but the media is closed to it, while saturated with Bellingcat's open source injured kitten stories.

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