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Why is the organization designed in such a way that anyone - Assange included - can permanently delete submissions? People risk their lives and their careers t
by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Why is the organization designed in such a way that anyone - Assange included - can permanently delete submissions? People risk their lives and their careers to submit this information. It's hard to believe that this act was "in the interest of the security of sources" as Domscheit-Berg claims. Don't delete it, encrypt it!
Any digital submissions should be backed up in multiple physical places, and disconnected from any networks. Physical submissions should be scanned in (at which point it becomes a digital submission) and similarly backed up.
- sp332 15y agoPeople risk their lives and their careers to submit this information. This is exactly why it was deleted. Security of sources is more important than leaking the information. If the sources wanted the data published without regard for their own safety, they would have published it themselves.
- maayank 15y agoAh? No. The exact point of Wikileaks is to be a place where leakers can leak information to the public, in a technical sustainable manner (think protection of DDOS).
- maayank 15y agoI can't seem to edit by now, so because I'm getting downvotes, to quote from the Wikileaks about page[1]: "Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box). One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth." [1] http://wikileaks.org/About.html http://wikileaks.org/About.html
- reemrevnivek 15y agoWhy does encryption make the sources any less secure than deletion?
- sp332 15y agofacepalm Because encrypted files can be decrypted. Files on a destroyed drive can't be recovered.
- gtank 15y agoIt's probably not a question of access to the information but one of the contents identifying to the source. Wikileaks caught a lot of bad publicity over their spotty sanitization of the Afghanistan leaks.
- higgslight 15y agoDDB was the guy in charge of the servers, crypto, and backups for submissions as well as administering the submission system. The first big dispute between him and Assange was over his use of WL funds in purchasing IT assets. Assange thought he was making unnecessary and/or dubious purchases...which it now seems was the case. He was s sysadmin, not just some shlub who logged in and hit delete.