The Sun Newspaper Launches Anonymous Tor-Based WikiLeaks-Style SecureDrop 64
Mark Wilson writes: The likes of Julian Assange's WikiLeaks have set the standard for blowing the lid on huge stories based on tips from anonymous sources. Whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden have brought to public attention stories which would otherwise have been kept hidden from the public, and it has been with the help of newspapers such as the Guardian that this information has been disseminated around the world.
Other newspapers are keen to ride on the coattails of those blazing a trail in the world of investigative journalism, and the latest to join the party is The Sun. Today, Murdoch-owned News Corp's newspaper and website launches SecureDrop — a way for whistle-blowers to anonymously leave tip-offs that can be further investigated.
The cloud service provides a means of getting in touch with journalists at The Sun without giving up anonymity — something which is particularly important when making revelations about companies and governments. The site provides a basic guide to getting started with the SecureDrop service, starting off with pointing would-be users in the direction of the Tor Browser Bundle.
Other newspapers are keen to ride on the coattails of those blazing a trail in the world of investigative journalism, and the latest to join the party is The Sun. Today, Murdoch-owned News Corp's newspaper and website launches SecureDrop — a way for whistle-blowers to anonymously leave tip-offs that can be further investigated.
The cloud service provides a means of getting in touch with journalists at The Sun without giving up anonymity — something which is particularly important when making revelations about companies and governments. The site provides a basic guide to getting started with the SecureDrop service, starting off with pointing would-be users in the direction of the Tor Browser Bundle.
What about (Score:1)
Slashdot having a similar service for leaks, would it work?
Re:What about (Score:5, Insightful)
Considering that the Sun is related to fox news via Murdoch, I would suspect that they would use it primarily as a means to generate their own stories and give some credibility to their chosen path of propaganda
Slashdot on the other hand... would probably find a way to tie it to add revenue
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Be reasonable. They can also submit anything that doesn't fit their scope of propaganda directly to the government and remove any hint of anonymity to thus gain more favor with the government, as well.
Re:What about (Score:5, Insightful)
Murdoch does not seek to curry favor with the government
Murdoch seeks place people in charge of the government who want to curry favor with him
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I had to read that twice to make sure it wasn't a Chuck Norris statement.
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Nah.
They already just make s*** up half the time, and then append "I'm just wondering/asking."
Ever looked at Foxnation.com ?
That's where they literally invite anyone to submit any story.
And it's just chock full of BS.
But it doesn't work (Score:5, Insightful)
Neither Manning nor Snowden remained anonymous. At some point the leak is so big that anonymity is not possible, and someone will pay the price for the leak.
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Manning is a woman, you insensitive clod!
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Manning would almost certainly have been caught regardless. All those State Department cables could only have come from someone with access to the entire database. That's a reasonably short list of people, and everyone on it would have been grilled and inspected from head to toe.
His (her) talking about it just made the inevitable happen faster.
Re: But it doesn't work (Score:2, Insightful)
Actually, no, that was precisely the problem: far too many people had access to the diplomatic material.
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"More that 3 million" had clearance, according to the Guardian. And there appears to have been no auditing of access.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor... [theguardian.com]
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There have been multiple leakers from the various US national security industrial complexes since Snowden. It's hard to spot unless you're really paying attention, but it's clear that it's happened several times now - I think we're up to at least three other leakers, all of whom are anonymous. You can tell because the info comes from non-NSA agencies, or the material is dated after Snowden left, or (most subtly of all) the articles don't attribute the source of the leak to Snowden.
So it's not obviously usel
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The only result of Snowdens actions will be the NSA adding more compartmentalization to the data stored. User security access will be put under the microscope and every action will be logged and monitored, especially any thing related to copying files and downloads. Snowden accomplished two main things. He gave the US enemies around the world something to use for their propaganda against anything associated with the US. Even though those countries run their own intelligence services and do the same thing th
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Anf then... (Score:3, Insightful)
the Sun informs GCHQ and so on so they can quickly stem the leak, I assume
Re:Anf then... (Score:4, Funny)
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Seriously, who thought that the Sun would handle anything submitted with any kind of serious journalism? This is News Corp after all.
Re:Anf then... (Score:5, Insightful)
Mod parent up, the Sun is absolutely not a paper to be trusted, it's pure trash, just look at their webpage:
The Sun | The Best for News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities | The Sun [thesun.co.uk] (title by them not me)
And the paper is not interested in serious news, why would they even bother? Next months story will be 'How we caught a traitor with our tor trap'.
what kind of leaks do they want. (Score:5, Insightful)
I think the Sun is more interested in who has been leaking body fluids on who, than any matters of global import. Its like the national inquirer setting up a securedrop site.
I suspect the leakbox will be full of Sun nonsense (Score:2)
I envision Murdoch employees putting a leak an hour into that funnypot.
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That is a good point, perhaps this is a way of them being able to "launder" stories obtained by indefensable means.
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Murdoch newspapers? (Score:3, Insightful)
If you trust any of Rupert's organizations to keep your information private, you are out of your mind! They don't have a very good track record doing that...
Re:Murdoch newspapers? (Score:5, Insightful)
I like it when someone is able to cut to the chase so quickly. Murdoch publications keeps no secrets, unless it serves their purposes. Even then - they fail. I mean, they hacked a dead girl's telephone, but couldn't keep THAT secret, could they? How in hell they gonna keep MY hacking secret?
Best thing is, don't share your secrets with Murdoch.
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The Sun is a real dirt paper.
The utility is for people leaking really every day stuff like "He's not her child" or some such rubbish. They probably don't expect to get anything important out of it. But if they do then they probably have the ability to compromise the anonimity in exchange for a kickback from other powerful interests, or just for their own sake.
There's a wide range of types of leaks. I'll probably be used first for NHS stuff in the UK (overworked nurse killed my grandfather, this kind of thin
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That's not exactly the story I thought that I heard. Lemme try to find something . . .
You're right, in that the Guardian's article comes up first in a Google search - http://www.theguardian.com/uk/... [theguardian.com]
Here, the Guardian again, backpedaling on that story - http://www.theguardian.com/uk/... [theguardian.com]
The wikipedia entry seems to confirm what you say - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... [wikipedia.org] specifically, "Dowler's phone automatically deleted messages 72 hours after being listened to.[47]" HOWEVER, "in September 2011 it wa
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... [dailymail.co.uk]
Reporting on the trial - testimony establishes pretty clearly that NoW did indeed hack into the telephone.
So - the phone automagically deletes messages that have been listened to, after 72 hours. NoW hacker listens to messages - 72 hours later, they are erased. Yeah - that would definitely screw up the police investigation, now wouldn't it? Intentionally or not, NoW was helping the deletion schedule to move along, and delete mails, giving every appearance that Milly might
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They did hack the dead girl's phone. Whether they deleted messages is totally fucking irrelevant to that actual crime.
Are you really trying to defend the News of the World? Seriously?
honey trap (Score:2)
Wonder which US government TLAs are working with NewsCorp on this project? And no I don't think TOR is 100% going to solve that particular problem.
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The post office photographs and tracks every piece of mail. The other part of that equation hasn't been publicized yet - they have cameras with facial recognition software focused on all their mailboxes.
No, snailmail is not anonymous. It probably was anonymous around 2000. Almost definitely anonymous in 1990. Not any more!
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Link to the Onion (Score:1)
nodd5fyasyj4jqgp.onion
Ugh. The link is hidden in an image in the middle of the article, and the article doesn't even show up without Javascript.
Great first impression.
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I saw your post title, and was super confused. Normally when someone says "Link to the Onion", it looks more like, say, this [theonion.com].
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One Stop Honey Pot (Score:2, Insightful)
The Sun? (Score:5, Insightful)
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And you KNOW.... (Score:3, Insightful)
#JFT96 (Score:1)
Don't buy the S*n
Securedrop, or honeypot? (Score:2)
That's the question. If an agency has tabs on all traffic, then it is a pretty simple exercise to match up send and receive patterns at both ends to find out who sent it to whom, if not what.
This is new? (Score:5, Funny)
What Fox News thinks of Edward Snowden (Score:2, Insightful)
Ed Snowden, Russian TV star, hands Putin a propaganda coup
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/18/ed-snowden-russian-tv-star-hands-putin-propaganda-coup/
Snowden leaks help ISIS evade US intel, report says
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/05/snowden-leaks-help-isis-evade-us-intel-report-says/
Obama signals leniency for traitor Edward Snowden
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/01/28/obama-signals-leniency-for-traitor-edward-snowden/
So why would any whistleblower trust Rupert Murdoch with information??
If the internet has taught us one thing... (Score:2)