LeakDirectory.org wiki

Following the spectacular media hype and journalistic scoops which the controversial WikiLeaks.org project has helped to create, there is still a demand for such Anonymous, Secure and Effective whistleblower leak submission and publication services.

WikiLeakS.org, whilst it is still doling out the vast cache of US Government diplomatic cables it has acquired, is no longer of any use to "ordinary" whistleblowers - they no longer have any functioning leak submission or publication system at all.

The WikiLeaks.org cult has inspired several other, more limited projects, which will hopefully learn from the successes and mistakes made by Julian Assange and his former associate Daniel Domscheit-Berg etc.

Links to many of these new independent whistleblower leak projects, to mainstream media whistleblower web sites and also to "official" government or public body anti-corruption or crime or terrorism or national security reporting websites, are available at the

Leak Directory wiki

Feel free to contribute to the risk and benefits analyses, of the good and bad points of these projects by editing the public wiki (which can be done reasonably anonymously).

Hopefully Leak Directory should be of use to careful potential Whistleblowers and to anyone setting up or running such a web site.

About this blog

We know that there are decent, honest, trustworthy individual politicians, civil servants, law enforcement, intelligence agency personnel and broadcast, print and internet journalists etc., who often feel powerless or trapped in the system. They need the assistance of external, detailed, informed, public scrutiny to help them to resist deliberate or unthinking policies, which erode our freedoms and liberties.

Some of these people will, in the public interest, act as whistleblowers, and may try to leak documents or information to the mainstream media, or to political blog websites etc.

Here are some Spy Blog "Hints and Tips", giving some basic preecautions, and some more obscure technical tips, which both whistleblowers, journalists, and bloggers need to be aware of, in order to help preserve the anonymity of whisteleblowing or other journalistic sources, especially in the United Kingdom, but applicable in other countries as well.

Whistleblower anonymity may not always be possible, or even necessary, forever into the future, but it is usuially crucial during at least the early stages of a "leak", whilst it is being evaluated by others, to see if it merits wider publication and publicity.

Email & PGP Contact

Please feel free to email your views about this blog, or news about the issues it tries to comment on.

blog@spy[dot]org[dot]uk

Our PGP public encryption key is available for those correspondents who wish to send us news or information in confidence, and also for those of you who value your privacy, even if you have got nothing to hide.

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You can download a free copy of the PGP encryption software from www.pgpi.org
(available for most of the common computer operating systems, and also in various Open Source versions like GPG).

We look forward to the day when UK Government Legislation, Press Releases and Emails etc. are Digitally Signed so that we can be assured that they are not fakes. Trusting that the digitally signed content makes any sense, is another matter entirely.

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Most months there is a CryptoParty London event. where some of these Hints and Tips and other techniques are demonstrated and taught.

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