From m--@gmx.com Fri Jul 6 02:33:12 2018 From: Michael Rogers To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] Whistle-blower site platform design Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:33:12 +0000 Message-ID: <172289076828.3849117.14584071348058269683.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1187298212452679840==" --===============1187298212452679840== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Len, Maybe one question we should consider is whether a leaks clearinghouse needs to look like a website at all. From the little I've read about OpenLeaks - and if anyone knows better, please correct me - it sounds like they're not planning to publish documents, as WikiLeaks does; rather, they're planning to build some kind of infrastructure for whistleblowers to communicate anonymously with journalists, to negotiate time-limited exclusive access to documents in return for help with preparing and publishing them. If we consider that kind of model rather than robust hosting, I guess the issues would include: * How do whistleblowers and journalists securely obtain the client software? * What kind of architecture does the anonymising network have? Can it be monitored end-to-end? Can it be DoSed? * Who contributes resources to the network? Do they need to be trustworthy, or can it be an open system? * Can attackers fill the system with fake whistleblowers to make it annoying for journalists to use? * Can attackers fill the system with fake journalists to make it annoying/dangerous for whistleblowers to use? * What's the legal status of such a system? Can it enjoy the protections given to journalists if it's seen as "just a tool"? Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============1187298212452679840==--