On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 04:39:01 AM Andrew McGlashan wrote:
On 28/04/2015 1:43 PM, Rohan McLeod wrote:
Assembled cogniscenti: I am not a huge fan of the Melbourne Herald-Sun and I believe the somewhat similar English Sun, is one of the Murdoch's papers which seemed to have little regard for privacy. So I found the following link which a friend sent; somewhat curious. But it did prompt the question suppose an ombudsman wanted to set up a secure drop box for "IT-naive whistleblowers", is it feasible ? and how could the whistleblower be certain of that anonymity ?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6429126/The-Sun-Whistleblower-C harter.html
Rather amusing to see a Murdoch paper railing against phone hacking. They had an 'important scoop about cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell calling cops “f***ing plebs”'. Seriously? We have lies about multiple wars, and lots of other serious issues and a profane MP is an "important scoop"? That said it's good that the publish information about using Tor, the people who read The Sun aren't going to be attending LUG meetings etc so it's their best chance to learn about such things.
I agree that the New Yorker is probably a better option in most cases. But if you have evidence of a dodgy MP doing something stupid that a tabloid can harass them about then The Sun is a good option. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/