[p2p-hackers] Whistle-blower site platform design

[Tyler Durden]

Alif wrote...

Much of the WL debacle has been caused by having Julian associated with WL
in the first place.  Anyone who comes after him has the same problem: by
acting as the releaser's mouthpiece, they become the face of the
organization, and in turn they become the object being sold by the MSM, as
opposed to the leaks themselves.

Well, yes and no. The public seems to be far more interested in a person, as
opposed to information. If the existence of a person causes a lot of info
pull, then I'm all for it. Other sites can repost the info, as well as accept
information directly. In other words, I'm not sure there's a huge overall
downside to having an Assange.

-TD


> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:37:03 -0600
> From: measl at mfn.org
> To: jya at pipeline.com
> CC: cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net
> Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] Whistle-blower site platform design
>
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, John Young wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
> > The site has a link to an article in which Daniel D-B explains
> > the initiative.
> >
> > Daniel generated a PK on December 13, 2010 with the address
> > ddb at openleaks.org.
> >
> > He welcomes inquiries and advice, as he says, from those with
> <SNIP>
>
> My biggest complaint is being re-implemented, rather than "repaired": WL
> fell over when they used a person, rather than an organization account
> with no human corrolary, to act as the
> acceptor/releaser/ObjPublicRelationsFlac (Julian in WL case).
>
> Much of the WL debacle has been caused by having Julian associated with WL
> in the first place.  Anyone who comes after him has the same problem: by
> acting as the releaser's mouthpiece, they become the face of the
> organization, and in turn they become the object being sold by the MSM, as
> opposed to the leaks themselves.
>
> Any public interfacing should be from a role account, which acts as both
> an anonymizer and a composite "face" for the press.  Not having a real
> person to attach their interests to will help force their interest to
> concentrate upon the leaks themselves.
>
> //Alif
>
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>
> Joseph Pulitzer, 1907 Speech