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> please consider seeding a torrent from a burner phone and posting magnet links to 4chan/reddit, let them do the sifting and seeding

This is bad advice.

It guarantees the leaker will be denied whistleblower privileges and presumptions. It also ensures the leaked material will be useless for legislators, regulators and law enforcers.

Yes, doing zero editorial work and dumping on 4chan will spice up your corner of the web for a minute. But if you want to cause real change, you need to be more disciplined.




Yeah? Did the panama papers lead to any real change?



It can be debated whether it lead to enough change, but there was some change: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/what-happe...


It led to the dismissal of the head of government of a nuclear power. It's not nothing.


Specifically?



Pakistan is now... "Sans Sharif"


Well, perhaps more regulations to work around with expensive lawyers and accountants later.

Slight change of available loopholes after some legislative changes?


Real change eh? Provide examples please.


Snowden caused real change.

Not in how gvmt treats citizens, but at least in how companies and citizens treat gvmnt.


Snowden also didn't leak everything, he gave everything to journalists and it was up to them to decide what parts to make public.


Is there less espionage going on now than before Snowden? Very few people outside the tech world care about privacy, if they even really understand it.


> Very few people outside the tech world care about privacy

Not the ones actually implementing all of this.


> guarantees the leaker will be denied whistleblower privileges and presumptions

If you're leaking something genuinely upsetting to the ruling class, none will be on offer anyway.


Instead the change doesn't affect those with the power to censor large portions of the leak.

It's a waste of a leak.




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