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First rule of blowing the whistle: never disclose your identity if you can avoid it, even to authorities. There’s no upside to that and authorities are incompet
by baq 2y ago
First rule of blowing the whistle: never disclose your identity if you can avoid it, even to authorities. There’s no upside to that and authorities are incompetent at preserving anonymity if it’s even legal for them to do so. (Exception: you’re filing a whistleblower report to the SEC, there’s sweet anonymous $$$ for you then.)
- htk 2y agoBut what about the ego? Any virtuous act might be fueled by the expectation of recognition.
- that_guy_iain 2y agoFor some reason this has been downvoted, it seems some people on here think that whistleblowing is never about ego. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a factor most of the time.
- croes 2y agoSo if the name is disclosed it‘s ego and if the source stays anonymous it’s not trustworthy. Got it.
- that_guy_iain 2y agoDidn't say that. Didn't say anything close to that. Not to mention you can be trustworthy and still do something for self-serving purposes.
- ashoeafoot 2y agoMight makes right sycophants without own opinions or values are worthless company wherever you go..
- Mountain_Skies 2y agoThis happened in the other SEC when a football player at an SEC school provided evidence that there were illegal benefits being provided to some of his teammates. The PDF report blacked out his name but was done in such a way that copying and pasting the redacted portion of the report showed his name in clear text.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoPDFs have so many ways to smuggle data. The only way I would feel safe sharing a PDF was to reprocess it in a dedicated pipeline that took a fuzzy monochrome screenshot of each page and package it up as a cbz (zip file of sequential images).