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I personally lost all respect for how WikiLeaks does business after I offered several servers and was told that they didn't even want me maintaining login acces
by ismarc 17y ago
I personally lost all respect for how WikiLeaks does business after I offered several servers and was told that they didn't even want me maintaining login access to them. So I offered my development skills to help improve their setup and never heard back. I especially dislike the holding of their information hostage until they reach their donation limit. If it's server/capacity, just let it be slow, go down to only a couple of servers.
- rdl 17y agoThe only real value they provide is the anonymization of submissions -- there are technical ways to do this, but most people with information won't know about those technologies beforehand. Authenticating the information could be done with a cryptographic signature, possibly by an unknown signer. Operate on the "last 100 0-days signed by this key when initially published were good, #101 is probably good too" basis, to build a brand. The problem of maintaining a nice repository for the information is much much simpler, once it's already online. Google could do this for most data (just include a special string in the file), and for stuff google won't touch, there are plenty of people who would pass it around informally.