Notices by lorax b. horne 🇵🇸 (bbhorne@kolektiva.social)

As folks gather at the birthplace of Wikileaks #37c3, I wonder who will raise the alarm that #DDoSecrets needs donations to continue? https://donorbox.org/ddosecrets-five-years-later Wikileaks hasn't published a leak since 2019, while DDoSecrets has published millions of documents. But the Germans like to pretend history ended when Julian got arrested. The leaks didn't stop, it's just the funding for the leaks kept going to the bloated ancestor, instead of going to the active publisher. Who will archive and publish leaks when #DDoSecrets runs out of funding? Unclear, but don't expect to see anything new from WL.

Here's a little story about why we need to support #DDoSecrets: https://donorbox.org/ddosecrets-five-years-later In 2008, a bomb strapped to a motorcycle exploded outside the office of a Croatian magazine, killing the journalist and publisher Ivo Pukanić in his car. After a trial, six people were convicted for the murder.

Thanks to @frank_rieger for blocking me on Mastodon instead of talking about what CCC is doing to support victims of abuse by CCC members, speakers and attendees. Your silence speaks volumes. I'm guessing @linuzifer won't stoop so low as to block me because he was my Chaos mentor at my first CCC, but this should tell us something about their general interest in community-building. #37c3

Release: #LAPDHeadshots https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/LAPD_Headshots 269 MB of photos of active LAPD officers labelled with their names and serial numbers. The LAPD released these photos in a public records request from a reporter, and then got sued by the police union for not notifying them. Now the city is trying to sue the reporter to get the cat back in the bag. #DDoSecrets is mirroring this dataset and has published torrents so others can mirror it as well: https://ddosecrets.substack.com/p/release-lapd-headshots-269-mb