There's also the point that some whistleblowing isn't exactly what some political groups would want to occur. For instance, opponents to unions such as myself aren't going to want a whistleblower to be able conveniently to report their exclusion from a job due to union membership. -Allen From: IN%"adam@homeport.org" "Adam Shostack" 27-AUG-1996 02:41:17.66 To: IN%"geoff@digidem.com" CC: IN%"cypherpunks@toad.com" Subj: RE: Whistleblowing on the Internet Geoffrey Gussis wrote: | Overall, I am quite surprised that there isn't a whistleblowing | clearinghouse on the Internet; a site sponsored by a non-profit that lists | email addresses and secure forms for sending anonymized email to those | areas of the public and private sector that deal with whistleblowing. As | the Internet is a great medium for information dissemination, and offers | significant privacy advantages, I really expected to find much more. Such a clearinghouse is what we call a fat target; something likely to attract attention since wiretapping it could be very useful to an organization that worried about having a whistleblower. As such, the correct attitude towords whistleblowing is to use an anonymous remailer, and send to interested parties. That's how the AT&T deal that sunk the des phones and made clipper a household word was publicized; a member of the list(?) interested party sent a number of interesting documents through remailers to cypherpunks. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume