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Posted May 23, 2013 7:04 UTC (Thu) by micka (subscriber, #38720)
In reply to: Timely! by jmorris42
Parent article: DeadDrop and Strongbox

You seem to talk about precise events that are occuring now.
I might not be be in the same part of the world than you (US ?) so I'm not aware of these possibly related events.Do you mind giving pointers ?

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Posted May 23, 2013 8:46 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] (1 responses)

>Do you mind giving pointers ?
Probably not without a system like the one described in the article.

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Posted May 23, 2013 9:05 UTC (Thu) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]

Thank you, that was useful, now I understand.

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Posted May 23, 2013 11:57 UTC (Thu) by sorpigal (guest, #36106) [Link] (3 responses)

In the USA it was recently (within the last ~2 weeks or so) reported that the government had been monitoring the business and personal phones of some large number of employees (read: journalists) of a respected news organization. The upshot of this is that if any of these people over a rather long time frame (months, I believe) had called or been called by a confidential source the content of their conversation was recorded.

If I seem vague on details it's because I haven't really followed the story, but I had the same reaction: DeadDrop comes at *just* the right time. Barnum could not have picked a better moment to unveil a mechanism to allow safe communication between journalists and sources that makes a plausible promise to be free of government surveillance.

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Posted May 23, 2013 12:16 UTC (Thu) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link] (2 responses)

Ah I see. We (in France) had similar events. One journalist's phone bill was studied by an "intelligence" agency to find its source (who happened to be from the ministry of justice) in a political affair ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettencourt_affair ). Then that was the judge's phone bill...

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Posted May 23, 2013 20:20 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

This wasn't just one Journalist, this was a very large portion (if not the entire staff) of the New York Times, and not just for a short time but for several months.

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Posted May 25, 2013 21:18 UTC (Sat) by fandingo (guest, #67019) [Link]

s/New York Times/Associated Press/