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Publeaks.nl

Presentation Freedom Software Day 2013

Mieke van Heesewijk

Boardmember Publeaks Foundation

BOARD •  Teun Gaultier

Director De Groene Amsterdammer

•  Corine de Vries Member of the Editorial Board De Volkskrant

•  Mieke van Heesewijk Director Netwerk Democratie


ORGANISATION •  Publeaks.nl Foundation

•  Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights

•  Het Internet Protection Lab

•  Greenhost

•  Netwerk Democratie

•  Versteeg Wigman Sprey Advocaten

•  Islands of Meaning •  M.V.


AIM PUBLEAKS.nl •  to protect whistleblowers,

•  shed light on wrongdoings and •  encourage and support investigative

journalism


PARTICIPATING MEDIA


CRITERIA: 1.  Subscribe objectives of the foundation

Publeaks.nl

2.  Code of Bordeaux: •  participating media outlets have committed

themselves to verifying the leaked materials,

•  finding sources to support the content and

•  hearing all sides before publishing anything


HOW DOES IT WORK?


HOW DOES IT WORK?


Wistleblower

NODE ADMINISTRATOR

audiance

submission

notification

download

outp

ut

receivers

a tip is created the node administrator selects a lists of receivers

Vidalia

Vidalia

TRAINING JOURNALISTS •  Working environment (Tails, PGP, …)

•  Training journalists (safety + remove meta data)

•  Data is encrypted for receiving journalist (PGP), so there is not on the server

•  The Publeaks node is a hidden service in the Tor network


receivers

HOW DOES IT WORK?


TOR = slow

LAUNCH PUBLEAKS september 9th


•  #publeaks trending topic

FIRST PUBLICATION


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Mieke van Heesewijk

Boardmember Publeaks Foundation

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