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The AP kerfuffle

Posted by Nick Thompson on May 15, 2013; 6:58pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-AP-kerfuffle-tp7583146.html

Everybody,

 

To prevent myself from bending a perfectly good thread on Wedtech, I am migrating it to FRIAM and putting my own spin on it.

 

My mind is a fact-free zone on this issue, but here is my believed-in-imagining concerning how AP got the story.  Somebody at CIA was enormously proud of what “his team” had accomplished  and could not bear the idea that that such achievements would never be known.    “What’s the harm?”he thought. The whole operation is over!”  But, of course, the harm was potentially enormous.  (I assume you don’t need me to spell that out.)

 

Now, stipulating …..STIPULATING …. That these facts are as I have imagined them, would you all agree that that person is dangerous and needs to be relieved of his/her duties … at least until s/he can be retrained?

 

And having agreed to that, what powers would you grant to the Government in their search for whoever that person is. 

 

Just asking.

 

Nick

 

From: Wedtech [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:27 AM
To: WedTech
Subject: Re: [WedTech] Blind drop box server?

 

Funny you should ask, this just popped on my twitter feed:

 

  http://inagist.com/all/334673594560946176/?utm_source=inagist&utm_medium=rss

 

It's a blind drop coded by Aaron Swartz for the New Yorker, of all the publications that needs secure anonymous tips to survive.

 

-- rec --

 

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

OK, so here's a project -- or at least a discussion topic -- for Wedtech:

Given the Dept.. of Justice "spying" on AP reporters, and no doubt others, how could we construct a web site drop box that would allow anyone to submit tips and documents in a manner that would not be traceable? 

-tom johnson (in Uzbekistan)

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