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Freenet provides both: Secrecy of content and pseudonymity — both are required to enable confidential disclosure to a journalist on the (typically valid) assump
by ArneBab 5y ago
Freenet provides both: Secrecy of content and pseudonymity — both are required to enable confidential disclosure to a journalist on the (typically valid) assumption that the opsec of the journalist is far from perfect.
- austincheney 5y agoThe entire goal of journalism is information disclosure, to publish a story. That is not privacy. The goal here is to not reveal the identity of a source.
- ArneBab 5y agoThe goal is to publish a story. Hiding the identity of a source is a way towards that goal. The journalist does not need privacy or confidentiality to publish. The source does. And without the source, there’s no story.