Bait messaging provides air cover and anonymity for whistleblowers

Dr. Manny Ahmed, founder of whistleblower protection tool Coverdrop, said large-scale bait messaging between news organizations and readers can help protect whistleblower identity and provide data authors of images and videos to ensure authenticity. Both tools work in symbiosis to ensure trusted communication.

Dr. Ahmed said in an interview with Cointelegraph that Coverdrop works by sending a lot of bait Encrypted messaging The traffic between the readers of the news platform and the news platform itself.

This creates the fantasy that every reader is a whistleblower and thus drowns out the identity of any real whistleblower in the sea of ​​digital noise. Executives outline the current whistleblower problems facing the digital surveillance era:

“Whistleblowers are in a tricky position because by definition they are part of a small collection of privileged information. So even if they use end-to-end encryption, the fact that they have communicated with journalists is enough to phase it out alone.

It doesn’t matter if they can’t see the message. Just a one-to-one relationship is enough. Dr. Ahmed continued.

CoverDrop and OpenOrigins founders warn that advances in AI and data monitoring tools will only Increase privacy threats Over time, more powerful defense capabilities have been proposed for emerging landscape groups in security surveillance status.

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Dr. Ahmed pointed out the Mass Government data collection Intelligence agencies have been doing it for more than a decade, but are largely ineffective because there is no effective way to filter large amounts of collected data.

“They need to hire thousands of analysts to sit down, and they’re actually targeting people; you don’t need to do that anymore,” executives told Cointelegraph.