The AdLeaks project

Pinga · Jul 1, 2013

Corporate or official corruption and malfeasance can be difficult to uncover without information provided by insiders, so-called whistleblowers.

However, the proliferation of surveillance technology and the retention of Internet protocol data records has a chilling effect on potential whistleblowers. The mere act of connecting to an online whistleblowing Website may suffice to raise suspicion, leading to cautionary advice for potential whistleblowers.

The current best practice for online submissions is to use an SSL connection over an anonymizing network such as Tor. This hides the end points of the connection and it protects against malicious exit nodes and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who may otherwise eavesdrop on or tamper with the connection. However, this does not protect against an adversary who can see most of the traffic in a network, such as national intelligence agencies with a global reach and view.

We suggest a novel type of submission system for online whistleblowing platforms that we call AdLeaks. The objective of the AdLeaks system is to make whistleblower submissions unobservable even if the adversary sees the entire network traffic. A crucial aspect of the AdLeaks design is that it eliminates any signal of intent that could be interpreted as the desire to contact an online whistleblowing platform.
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http://www.adleaks.org/

MyBlackBox · Jul 8, 2013

...a system that would make it possible for an individual to submit data over the Internet while remaining unobserved.
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http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2013/fup_13_157

Pinga · Jul 8, 2013

I recently spoke to Dietrich and Roth via email about the genesis of AdLeaks and how it works.
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http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/adleaks-will-hide-whistleblowers-in-a-maelstrom-of-traffic

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