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Why would the Pandora Papers leaker give it to the institution that had a precedent for censoring leaks in the past? If any leakers are reading this, please con
by brezelgoring 5y ago
Why would the Pandora Papers leaker give it to the institution that had a precedent for censoring leaks in the past? If any leakers are reading this, please consider seeding a torrent from a burner phone and posting magnet links to 4chan/reddit, let them do the sifting and seeding.
Much less work, and I guarantee that it'll be far more effective than whatever they've been doing so far.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> please consider seeding a torrent from a burner phone and posting magnet links to 4chan/reddit, let them do the sifting and seeding This is bad advice. It guarantees the leaker will be denied whistleblower privileges and presumptions. It also ensures the leaked material will be useless for legislators, regulators and law enforcers. Yes, doing zero editorial work and dumping on 4chan will spice up your corner of the web for a minute. But if you want to cause real change, you need to be more disciplined.
- thepasswordis 5y agoYeah? Did the panama papers lead to any real change?
- eru 5y agoWell, perhaps more regulations to work around with expensive lawyers and accountants later. Slight change of available loopholes after some legislative changes?
- unmole 5y agoIt led to the dismissal of the head of government of a nuclear power. It's not nothing.
- pindab0ter 5y agoSpecifically?
- unmole 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers_case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers_case
- q-base 5y agoIt can be debated whether it lead to enough change, but there was some change: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/what-happened-after-the-panama-papers/ https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/what-happe...
- baybal2 5y agoPakistan is now... "Sans Sharif"
- PpEY4fu85hkQpn 5y agoYeah, actually a lot of stuff https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/what-happened-after-the-panama-papers/ https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/what-happe...
- anothernewdude 5y agoInstead the change doesn't affect those with the power to censor large portions of the leak. It's a waste of a leak.
- PaoloLasd 5y agoReal change eh? Provide examples please.
- rocqua 5y agoSnowden caused real change. Not in how gvmt treats citizens, but at least in how companies and citizens treat gvmnt.
- stef25 5y agoIs there less espionage going on now than before Snowden? Very few people outside the tech world care about privacy, if they even really understand it.
- cronix 5y ago> Very few people outside the tech world care about privacy Not the ones actually implementing all of this.
- input_sh 5y agoSnowden also didn't leak everything, he gave everything to journalists and it was up to them to decide what parts to make public.
- AndrewBissell 5y ago> guarantees the leaker will be denied whistleblower privileges and presumptions If you're leaking something genuinely upsetting to the ruling class, none will be on offer anyway.
- oefrha 5y agoYou’re assuming the leakers actually want indiscriminate exposure. For all we know, damaging the Tax Avoidance B Team and politically cherry-picked persons could be a shared goal of the leakers (hackers?), ICIJ, and “global media partners”.
- brezelgoring 5y agoThat's a scenario I considered but the size of the document trove made me think it was unedited, without much real knowledge of what it contained beyond its origin. Perhaps it is the goal of ICIJ and Co., though, I can believe that.