The Wall Street Journal on Friday launched its "Safe House" ("safe"), a website intended to "whistleblowers", which allows them to file documents as confidential. The system is anonymous, although the Wall Street Journal says: "The ability to contact you if needed will greatly improve our ability to cover a topic quickly." The publication of numerous confidential documents by Wikileaks - whose mission reports from the U.S.
military in Iraq and Afghanistan, and American diplomatic cables - has prompted several media to launch their own system. Al-Jazeera has created a "Transparency Unit" earlier this year, followed in France by Mediapart with FrenchLeaks. PROBLEMS OF SAFETY But only hours after launch, the computer security site launched by The Wall Street Journal is already challenged.
Jacob Applebaum, founder of the Tor anonymity system and close to Wikileaks, note for example that the site's security certificates are not accepted. The portion of the non-secure version Secure (https) site does not use the latest encryption techniques to prevent spying by connecting through the network as an ISP .
Perhaps even more annoying for a service like this, the conditions of use provide guarantees of anonymity rather limited for whistleblowers. "In the absence of a confidentiality agreement further, we reserve the right to disclose any information about you to law enforcement or a third person, without telling you in order to comply with the law or (...) court with a requisition or to protect the interests of others ", provide the conditions of use.
Gives a particularly open, Gawker notes, for whom "the only common point between Wikileaks and Safe House is to benefit Australian megalomaniac," referring to Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks, and Rupert Murdoch, owner of The Wall Street Journal. Facing these criticisms, the newspaper said that the conditions for use of the Safe House were designed to "preserve the flexibility to react in extreme circumstances" but that "the number one priority of the Wall Street Journal is to protect his sources.
" Insufficient to Wikileaks, very critical of this potential competitor. On his Twitter account, the organization notes that the day of the launch of the Safe House, the newspaper publishes a platform to justify the indictment of Julian Assange. 
military in Iraq and Afghanistan, and American diplomatic cables - has prompted several media to launch their own system. Al-Jazeera has created a "Transparency Unit" earlier this year, followed in France by Mediapart with FrenchLeaks. PROBLEMS OF SAFETY But only hours after launch, the computer security site launched by The Wall Street Journal is already challenged.
Jacob Applebaum, founder of the Tor anonymity system and close to Wikileaks, note for example that the site's security certificates are not accepted. The portion of the non-secure version Secure (https) site does not use the latest encryption techniques to prevent spying by connecting through the network as an ISP .
Perhaps even more annoying for a service like this, the conditions of use provide guarantees of anonymity rather limited for whistleblowers. "In the absence of a confidentiality agreement further, we reserve the right to disclose any information about you to law enforcement or a third person, without telling you in order to comply with the law or (...) court with a requisition or to protect the interests of others ", provide the conditions of use.
Gives a particularly open, Gawker notes, for whom "the only common point between Wikileaks and Safe House is to benefit Australian megalomaniac," referring to Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks, and Rupert Murdoch, owner of The Wall Street Journal. Facing these criticisms, the newspaper said that the conditions for use of the Safe House were designed to "preserve the flexibility to react in extreme circumstances" but that "the number one priority of the Wall Street Journal is to protect his sources.
" Insufficient to Wikileaks, very critical of this potential competitor. On his Twitter account, the organization notes that the day of the launch of the Safe House, the newspaper publishes a platform to justify the indictment of Julian Assange.
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