Journalists Successfully Used Secure Computing To Expose Panama Papers

[Judi Lynn]

August 18, 2017 Eurasia Review 0 Comment Computers, Hacking, Internet, Media, Panama Papers
By Eurasia Review

A team of researchers from Clemson University, Columbia University and the University of Washington has discovered a security success in an unlikely place: the “Panama Papers.”

“Success stories in computer security are rare,” said Franzi Roesner, assistant professor at the University of Washington and one of the principal investigators on this project. “But we discovered that the journalists involved in the Panama Papers project seem to have achieved their security goals.”

The Panama Papers project was a year-long collaborative investigation of leaked documents detailing the uses of offshore funds by clients of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. During this project, a large, diverse group of globally distributed journalists collaborated remotely via the internet while achieving their security goals.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers investigation exposed offshore companies linked to more than 140 politicians in more than 50 countries — including 14 current or former world leaders, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). It also uncovered offshore hideaways tied to mega-banks, corporate bribery scandals, drug kingpins, Syria’s air war on its own citizens and a network of people close to Russian President Vladimir Putin that shuffled as much as $2 billion around the world, ICIJ said.

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[Blue_Tires]

1. It's funny because Assange is still trying to shit on the PP

and Greenwald/Snowden only gave a rat's ass when they thought there would be some hardcore Hillary dirt in them... (Of course a HUGE Putin laundering fund was identified, which was another reason for their silence...)

[sandensea]

2. In Bastian and Frederik Obermaier's book about the Panama Papers investigation,

they noted as well that it was as incontrovertible and successful as it was because of the sheer caliber of the journalists that took part in the effort.

Except, they noted, for those from one particular country: Argentina.

The mistake the ICIJ made there, Obermaier wrote, was to invite people from the right-wing Clarín and La Nación news dailies.

They contributed next to nothing because, according to the authors, they spent the entire time looking solely for dirt on former President Cristina Kirchner (the hard-right Macri administration's chief opponent, for those unfamiliar) and pestering others to do the same.

There was none.

When mountains of evidence of money laundering and tax evasion emerged among the Panama papers against the Macri family instead, the Clarín/La Nación team showed no interest - and even tried to convince others to drop the leads.

Thanks as always for digging these very interesting stories up for the rest of us, Judi. You are definitely ICIJ material.

[Judi Lynn]

3. So glad to read your information. It has surely been whitewashed, as one would expect!

Had no idea, not a trace these ultra-right papers, notorious for whitewashing Argentina's military dictatorship's Dirty Wars astoundly brutal history, had lept into the chase to try to destroy President Cristina Kirchner.

Everything you've mentioned sounds so identical to their treacherous patterns already in place. That group could truly steal the entire world, if there were enough of them! No wonder they seem to approve Trump, and all US right-wing policy. Their fascist friendships go back so many years.

Hearing they attempted to completely bomb the investigation after they failed to destroy Cristina Kirchnerat almost makes one vomit. So spectacular knowing it didn't work for them, at least to the degree they needed.

Thank YOU for your phenomenal awareness on Latin American and other events. No one in daily life here can begin to touch your expertise.