NY Times considers creating an ‘EZ Pass lane for leakers’
Cutting out the middle man is a good thing, but I am not sure the technical aspect behind this has been worked out yet. Too much rests on “promises”…
The New York Times is considering options to create an in-house submission system that could make it easier for would-be leakers to provide large files to the paper.
Executive editor Bill Keller told The Cutline that he couldn’t go into details, “especially since nothing is nailed down.” But when asked if he could envision a system like Al Jazeera’s Transparency Unit, Keller said the paper has been “looking at something along those lines.”
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Like WikiLeaks, the Al Jazeera Transparency Unit allows users to submit files through an encrypted system that does not record any of their personal information. Al Jazeera launched the initiative earlier this month, but it’s been getting a lot more attention since the network began reporting Sunday on more than 1,700 classified files in the network’s possession, part of the biggest classified leak related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.