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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door patrickve

Maw, ja, uiteraard is het "diefstal", want dat is de enige manier om aan te tonen dat een staat liegt.

Dat is pertinent onwaar.
Bellingcat bvb. toont al ruim 5 jaar keer op keer de leugens aan van de Russische en Syrische regering. Zonder enige diefstal. Maar door OSINT-onderzoek en ja, dat is VEEL harder werk dan wat Wikileaks doet.

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/sta...54935411089409

Many people have made comparisons between Wikileaks and Bellingcat in the last couple of days, but it's like comparing apples and oranges. Wikileaks elicits and publishes leaked materials, we analyze open source materials and, in very rare cases, leaked data.

The clearest case of this can be seen in a story on our October 2018 story "305 Car Registrations May Point to Massive GRU Security Breach". We found this data in pre-published leaked materials, but purposefully chose to not doxx these GRU agents.

We could have easily published all of the available personal information about these 305 GRU officers, but chose not to because it would just be doxxing for the sake of it. Despite what some think, we are not an extension of any security service.

We go out of our way to conceal sensitive personal data on our research subjects. Look no further than our 115-page report on Russia's 53rd Brigade, where we hid the identities of all of our research subjects except those who already have a public profile.

Our most well-known reports revealing the identities of individuals were done with very specific goals in mind regarding the public interest. We put a spotlight on the Skripal poisoners and MH17 suspects from the GRU because we were following a story, not to just target Russia.

We do not hack information, and we do not ask others to. In the extremely rare cases we have published non-open source information, such as passport data, it's been from pre-leaked databases or from people sending us information as whistleblowers, not via our instructions.