| inbluevt | Date: Saturday, 2013/05/18, 2:23 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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When Kevin Poulsen, a former hacker who now edits at Wired magazine, came up with the idea two years ago of creating an open-source drop box for leaked documents along the lines of WikiLeaks, he could not have imagined that its launch would coincide with one of the most aggressive US government assaults on press freedom in a generation.
Deaddrop unveiled itself to the world on Thursday, three days afterAssociated Press revealed that it had been subjected to a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into its news gathering by the Justice Department. Leak investigators had obtained phone records of more than 20 telephone lines used by AP
journalists, without the news agency being informed of the violation.
For Poulsen, this week's coincidental confluence of events underlines the potential value and importance of the DeadDrop project. "With the risks now so high – not just from the US government but also the Chinese government that is hacking newsrooms in the West – it's crucial that news outlets find a secure route for sources to come to them."
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