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GlobaLeaks: anonymous whistleblowing software
Guarantee sources protectionin a wide controlled society
Claudio AgostiPerugia
International Journalism Festival 2013
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Who we are ?• Hermes Center, for
transparency and digital human rightshttp://logioshermes.org
• Developers:
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Project Timeline
2011 2012 2013
Concept @IJF 2011
New project plan
Leaking and whistleblowing differencies
First “hackathon”
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What we do - What we don't• After WikiLeaks cablegate:
• No more a central entity would face a danger so extreme
• General-purpose whistleblowing may be unable to understand details and environment
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WB and journalism• Whistleblowing in the public sector may
use media (they are simply called sources)
• Commonly whistleblowers looks for journalists
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How connect them ?• Whistleblowers are someone with
“something to tell”.– a WB may not know that someone is
interested
• Journalist can trasform the right information in an action, in a change.– a WB may not know the right journalist.
@globaleaks
“if you know something, you can do something about it”
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Is internet safe for whistleblowers ?
• Online/LAN data control is a business itself• Offices control is commonly present• Whistleblowers
protection law• Freedom of speech
threatened in somecountries
• Reprisal/revenge
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Our project• Free software
– We do not run services• Every topic may have an appropriate
whistleblowing site– We call them contexts
• Roles separation– Whistleblower– Node Administrator– Receivers (Journalists, experts, public
official)
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Key elements(compared to wikileaks)
• Contextualized whistleblowing.WL: “do not upload documents written by you”GL: just follow Node Admin requirements
• Scalability in every level of the society.WL: one world orientedGL: every municipality
• Whisltleblower – Receiver cooperationWL: anonymous dropboxGL: safe area
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Connection Protection• Guarantee whistleblower anonymity
(of whistleblower connection, almost)– No one can materially have information about the
whistleblower (admin, server, others)• Protection from censorship attempt• Do not disclose service
physical location
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GlobaLeaks model• Every person with the:
– Political/media ability to recognize an opaque environment
• May create their own GlobaLeaks node!
– Need to choose carefully a receiver group
– Need to publicize the node in the right environment
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The rensponsability of the “receivers”
• Trust only data– They are much more checkable than
gossip
• They need to be knowledgable about the subject, but not eventually related– They may be selected by the available
receivers, so have to declare their
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Final words• GlobaLeaks is in alpha stage
• Run on Linux server• Android client• LeakDirectory, archive for collaborative filter, wiki-like.
Work in progress• Transparency Internaltional (municipality/anti corruption)• Whistle.is• Group of associated journalists• Active citizen (Hacktivism ?)• Press Bulgaria• BalcanLeaks• RFA languages localization
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Questions ?• Technical Documentation
http://github.com/globaleaks/GlobaLeaks/wiki• Latest article about us
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/03/whither-whistleblowing-where-have-all-the-leaking-sites-gone/
• Project Planhttp://globaleaks.org/ProjectPlan.pdf
• Contactshttp://logioshermes.org
Twitter, @globaleaksIRC OFTC #globaleaks