Friday, May 6, 2011

Wall Street Journal's Wikileaks

Yes folks! Send your anonymous information to WSJ! WSJ has just released their very own WikiLeaks

You can send information anonymously to WSJ, and they'll investigate it further for you! If you have newsworthy contracts, correspondence, emails, financial records or databases from companies, government agencies or non-profits, you can send them to WSJ using the SafeHouse service.

The 3 uses of the SafeHouse:
  1. Help The Wall Street Journal uncover fraud, abuse and other wrongdoing.
  2. Send documents to us using a special system built to be secure.
  3. Keep your identity anonymous or confidential, if needed.

It won't be just published as it is. A veteran Journal editor will review each submission, and coordinate any follow-up. Being able to contact you if needed can greatly help them to pursue a story quickly. If you don't need anonymity all that much, submitting your personal info will help them more!

There's also security all around safehouse, that includes:
  • File Encryption. They encrypt any files when they are sent and stored and restricting any visibility into SafeHouse activities by third-party partners. The Journal has also minimized the technical information it receives as part of any uploads that could potentially identify the user.
  • Document Encoding
    For added security, you can encode your documents by downloading the public PGP encryption key. In order to use this key, you will need to install special encryption software, such as the open-source programs offered by the Free Software Foundation’s Gnu Project.

Another measure that's optional, but is recommended for those who is concerned about the source of the flow of information can install software on the computer that attempts to obscure the source of any internet traffic to everyone, such as the software provided by the nonprofit Tor Project.

I don't know about you, but this seems like a great idea for me! This allows all the self-righteous person, but scared to get reprimanded because of their honesty, to actually send information to the world-renowned WSJ anonymously.

Now, will any other paper consider making their own WikiLeaks? Nonetheless, WSJ has beaten them to it.

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