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Hosting a Highly Inflammatory Document?

Posted by Soulskill on from the information-wants-to-be-free,-particularly-the-juicy-stuff dept.

IndianaKim writes "I have been asked if I can host or assist in hosting a highly inflammatory document that reflects poorly on a Police Department. I want to help, but I also do not want the headache and possible subjection to search warrants and/or illegal searches. The document is so inflammatory that it could interest the FBI and DoJ and cause them to investigate the government officials involved. I live in the same county, but not the same city, and therefore could be subject to a search (legal or not) by some of these government agencies. I have been asked to host it on a server outside of the US. At this time, I do not have the ability to do that, but I could set it up if I needed to. My question is: would you host it if you were asked? How would you go about protecting the document and yourself?"

6 of 471 comments (clear)

  1. Re:1. Upload to Wikileaks with Xerobank 2. Link to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's posts like this that make me fall in love with /. all over again!!

  2. Balls Out by sexconker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Post it everywhere.
    Don't hide.
    Print that shit out and nail it to the wall, Martin Luther style.

  3. Use Tor by RPoet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why use Xerobank, a commercial service? I recommend installing Tor (which is free) and accessing Wikileaks only through their .onion address, http://gaddbiwdftapglkq.onion/. That way you don't use any exit servers, so nobody can sniff your traffic or even know that you're talking to Wikileaks except Wikileaks themselves (who won't know who you are).

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    "Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
    1. Re:Use Tor by bircho · · Score: 5, Insightful

      More important than that: DO NOT post this file(s) as a .doc, .jpg, .pdf, etc. AS IS. Those formats have metadata that can be used to trace to our source.

  4. Re:I know where . . . by Gerzel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly. Wikileaks is the premier inflammatory doc hosting site out there.

    There is a system for subverting the system and you should use that system!

  5. Re:I know where . . . by Reziac · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, you're probably right 99% of the time, but in this case it proved the right thing to do... especially since he caught the bad cop by surprise, and with no backup.

    As to whether pulling a gun is always a bad idea... I've had to use threat of deadly force to run off scum four times myself... twice saving someone's life (one being my own). IMO, getting beat up or robbed or killed because you won't defend yourself is a worse idea. :)

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    ~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?