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Friendly Reminder That Deep State Is Still Likely Assassinating Private Citizens
| >James Dolan, former Marine and co-creator of the whistleblower submission system SecureDrop alongside Aaron Swartz and Wired editor Kevin Poulsen, has died. The Freedom of the Press Foundation, which took over SecureDrop, reports that Dolan, age 36, took his own life.
Note: not related to James L. Dolan, who is a Trump supporting businessman and very much alive.
| >First deployed as StrongBox with The New Yorker, organizations such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Associated Press, and Gizmodo Media Group have all come to rely on SecureDrop—which allows highly secure communication between journalists and sources in possession of sensitive information or documents. As an industry tool, it has become invaluable for reporters.
| Dolan joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation to maintain SecureDrop after co-creator Aaron Swartz took his life in 2013 at age 26, as pressure mounted in a federal investigation against him that many felt was overzealous.
>Memorial services have not yet been announced, and presently the circumstances of Dolan’s death are not known
Looks like whistleblowing isn't good for your mental health.
| Good journalists are really hard to find. It's a thankless job and you get a lot of unwanted attention. RIP Dolan
| Is this real
| I wouldn't be surprised if this was true, but you have to consider that if the government wanted to kill off SecureDrop, they could just get rid of the entire company and product under the excuse of National Security.
| Why kill the owners every few years? If it was to co-op the company, they could still do it under the same excuse. Could they be using it themselves and then offing anyone who gets too suspicious? But why go through the effort?
| Also, not sure if OP is aware, but not too long ago there was a big hubbub about WikiLeaks being co-opted and the twitter account failing to provide proof of life for Julian Assange, as well as failing to provide the correct key in a timely manner. Then there was this long meme posted on 4chan that had a somewhat believeable story that it was written by a Wikileaks employee who was breaking a gag order.
| In order to warn people that Wikileaks had been taken over thanks to the colossal efforts of the CIA and GCHQ.
| So, were we to presume that there is some kind of conspiracy... it begs to question why a co-opted organization would post a tweet about the death of SecureBox's latest owner, presumably at the hands of the same organization.
I guess you could always just believe one conspiracy theory and ignore another, but eh, you know...
| Oh and, if you haven't realized, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange have since gone on record claiming that they were not, in fact, co-opted. Although some people claim Julian's proof of life was really an edited video.
Considering how far CGI has come with the Star Wars films, I wouldn't be surprised.
| This is the kind of shit that back in like, 2014, I wouldn't have believed. With the goings on of the past few years though I don't know what is and isn't possible anymore.
| I'm surprised they haven't come after me yet.
| I'm sure love will find a way
| Hillary Clinton's revenge against Wikileaks for helping expose how corrupt she is with her leaked emails.
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| 2nd SecureDrop inventor SUICIDED
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/950866357347905537
https://web.archive.org/web/20180110053400/https://gizmodo.com/james-dolan-co-creator-of-securedrop-dead-at-36-1821921230
>James Dolan, Co-Creator of SecureDrop, Dead at 36