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Darkleaks: an Online Black Market For Selling Secrets
An anonymous reader writes Whistleblowers and those individuals that are simply out to make a buck out of any confidential and valuable information, can now offer it for sale on Darkleaks, a decentralized, anonymous black market on the Internet. The Darkleaks project is built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, and can be used by downloading this software package (source code is open).
hasn't anyone learned anything from recent events? bitcoin is not anonymous. buyer (and seller) beware.
If you sell some secrets and put the money in a previously unused wallet, you haven't lost anonymity (unless someone physically finds you with the wallet). If you spend the coins on some meth from Silk Road 2, and it gets delivered to a random bus station locker and retrieved when noone is around, you haven't lost anonymity. When you smoke the meth, overdose, and end up in the hospital, your medical records will probably get stolen. And then you won't be anonymous any more. So you are right, bitcoin is not anonymous.
It's also pretty unlikely that the CIA is going to trump up fake rape charges on you for buying heroin.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
It is still better than going through official channels. Most whistleblowers who try to go through official channels, get thrown to the wolves. ... and things are getting worse: Obama has persecuted whistleblowers more than any other president.
How the US govt destroys the lives of whistleblowers.