Snowden gave the information to reporters and then tried to make his way to a non-extradition country. The U.S. canceled his passport, he got stuck in Russia. My advice, get to your destination first, and then say something. Many media outlets have a way to upload documents anonymously to protect sources.
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Could also put it in the mail
A thumb drive in the mail, sure. Too many things can go wrong printing off the docs and mailing those.
SD card. Thumb drives are too easy to have malware. Nobody should plug in an unfamiliar thumb drive.
There’s zero functional difference between an SD card and a USB stick as far as malware. Don’t plug in any unfamiliar data storage device.
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Anyone with half a brain that receives an unknown data storage device is going to plug that in to an air gapped computer, preferably running a linux distro, and a base install with basic tools and AV software to look at a potentially damaging device and hopefully clean it. If it does contain malware that successfully wrecks the computer, just wipe and reinstall. Better yet if it has a CD drive so no malware can infect the reinstallation media/live install.
Generally news orgs and the like who have a real reason to receive a thumbdrive with important docs from random people will have a method of mitigating the risk. For example, a former client who was a tax preparer had a dedicated laptop which was firewalled off from the network and could only access a document web portal to upload files from the flash drive as their mitigation strategy
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these days? hit up polymarket
I love that legal insider trading is basically what they're promoting.
Don Jr is on the board of Polymarket, FYI. I'm sure it's totally unrelated to all the 6 figure bets being placed mere minutes before every action in Iran.
He's also on the board of kalshi.
is he on the board of my donut shop because i need one godsdamned vice
No other answer makes any sense.
Hit up Polymarket, move the proceeds to crypto, move yourself to a non-extradition country, then spill the beans. It's much easier to be on the wrong side of the US military industrial complex when you don't have to rely on working for income.
I don't mean to offend, but you probably don't have anything actionable or even surprising to anybody that's been there. "The system is fucked!" Isn't news to anybody. You'd have to have something with concrete proof that an individual or org has done something specific. And talking to individuals and getting their stories would be more worthy of a book than a whistle blower situation. Maybe you have that, I don't know. But you need files, pictures, or something that proves that it was a known policy or intentional wrongdoing, or you'll get nowhere. And odds are it's too broad if you're getting this from that many seperate pillars of authority.
This doesn't answer OP's question, it's just pure condescension. If he has nothing then let the journalists figure that out on their own. then OP can deal with the consequences.
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“The system is fucked!” Isn’t news to anybody
the amount the pentagon fails its audit by every year is staggering. but given that a lot of it is bribes that they don't want to put on the books, meh?
I’ve had to help similar whistleblowers and people in the Epstein saga and had to write this up already:
https://transparency_files.codeberg.page/whistleblower.html
Respond here if you have any questions or need help.
You’re all right, man. Thanks for imparting this information.
Edward Snowdon and Donald Trump show that the public doesn't care.
At least not enough to change anything.
The public cares, but are mostly powerless because it's extremely difficult to coordinate efforts across so many states and distance.
Going by votes in the last election 25% of Americans care and 25% think what ever it is its cool.
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We've had the largest protests in American history twice over Trump. People do care, it's just nearly impossible to get things done as they are now. It doesn't mean people aren't doing anything.
Lol wut? Snowden changed a ton of things. Http used to be default back then. Encryption had a huuuge roll out thanks to Snowden
Contacting a journalist from some relatively non-US-Flavor aid-drinking media outlet? Find some that allow contact through encrypted media, work meticulously to not give any obvious identity clues. This being said, I feel "they're a bunch of crazy, corrupt dumbfucks" might not work as news, per se.
Sounds like a good way to get suicided. My feed as of writing this:
Megaphone and a street corner like the apocalyptic doomsayer street preachers we get all our most reliable information from.
Secure Drop to all the news sites, international.
Prep all the information, prerecord videos, prep a will and statement of sanity, psych eval and doctor note etc, anything to show you are of sane mind. Have a dead mans trigger to send/post copies of that stuff too.
Then send it certified mail to multiple news sources including any personal messages and notes, letting them know where else it's being sent, especially send to ones not owned by far right interests. And post the videos on every video platform and social site.
I'd suggest looking into what news outlets are still willing to 'break the story' to the public these days. Perhaps a search for 'whistle blower story' might help you find these that are willing to still be proper reporters.
If you feel you're life might be endanger in anyway, but reaching out to someone to share your story, consider looking into concealing yourself with any device you decide to use. I'm sure there are resources out there that can help you navigate this. If what you say is true, do what you believe to be the moral thing to do.
Idk but it'd be pretty sick if you just posted it here lol
Keep up the good work, agent Fleur.
You'd probably end up shooting yourself twice in the back of the head after posting this if anything you knew was actually actionable.
Get a list and contact them all at once with all the information. AP and Reuters are good too, telegraph, then your big US papers, 404media, etx.
It's always been broken, disjointed and tribal. You can tell everyone, but many have already known this. Hell, most of humanity is like this naturally.
Almost every large organization is this way, really. Most of it is just covered up by goverment or corporate propaganda or some weird sense of duty people have to jobs or organizations.
This ain't anything new, is my point. It's new and shocking to you, sure. Welcome to the tribe of the disillusioned. It was always better in the past and new people are always going to make it "like it was" and "better". (Quite literally the selling point myth of MAGA, to be honest.)
YouTube, tiktok, Instagram, facebook & twitter, maybe reddit cover like 90% of people's attention. The news reposts the biggest things from those platforms; if you use all 6 (you would probably want to find friends that each use those as their primary channel & actually announce things/get engagement) you would be able to disseminate to very broad swathes of the country relatively quickly.
Document everything with pics and/or video and collect as much physical evidence I possibly can. Post it online while also sending it to every journalist I can get the contact info for. Basically just try and flood it to as many places at the same time as I possibly can so it both gets seen and is harder to scrub.
Large News orgs like the NY Times and kind of indie news like The Intercept have official encrypted channels for sending tips. I would send to 2-3 large news orgs, maybe a half dozen small ones. Tell all of them the whole thing will be dumped on Twitter in some time period so they should rush to get ahead of it.
I'd look into something like https://whistleblower.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/whistleblower.house.gov/files/whistleblower_survival_tips.pdf
Also consider how your country protects (or rather prosecutes) whistleblowers and whether this question you asked here + additional online interaction history could lead then to identify you
If you think the current regime-aligned collection of fuckwits running the show are going to do anything other than sic the DOJon you, you’re delusional. At least wait until you can see how midterms pan out. Or ideally just find a reputable journalist and protect your identity as best you can.
i have media friends. radio and newspaper people mostly, but a few tv folk too. if the knowledge was actionable, i'd go to them. ask them what to do.
https://www.politico.com/news-tips
I know Lemmy hates traditional media, but it's still the best way to handle something like this. A book or video by a no name random person is easy to ignore. Real investigative journalists both know how to protect sources and create visibility.
Check your employment contract about information dissemination, if you are on calls with those people there are likely restrictions on what can be released without authorisation.
While you wouldn't be releasing specific information (I hope) there would still be restrictions on discussing sops.
Write it all down. Get your story straight. Find a journalist you trust based on their past reporting and share. They will want evidence to corroborate your stories.
Also ensure that it can't be tracked down to you, or have multiple escape routes planned out. Tell when you're abroad, for example.
dailymotion is a good youtube alternative.
I'd post it on Twitter!
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