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Seriously, If you want to be a journalist reporting about own government corruption. Storing the data inside the local country is the worst option.

Why nobody thought about that?

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OCCRP tech here. The data exists in at least four different legal regimes. This is a legal issue, and whatever supporting technical work can be done has been done.

> OCCRP tech here.

Thanks for your hard work! It would be great if you could share more in this discussion.

> The data exists in at least four different legal regimes.

Doesn't redundancy have a negative effect in this scenario? I would think four legal regimes would very approximately quadruple exposure. If they can't get you in one regime, they'll get you in another.

I'm also a bit confused by the use of a Facebook post to disseminate this information.

Journalist heroes must be convicted, brave and honest, but they do not need to be OPSEC experts. People who spend all day reading about PGP, and people who decide to risk retaliation by publicizing documents that have come to them, are both minority groups that rarely overlap (because then you'd have to have two unlikely traits, which is a lot less likely than having one.)

>but they do not need to be OPSEC experts

This is evidently wrong.

They might need to be OPSEC experts if they want to publish two articles, but to publish one they do not. I'm pointing out that civic motivation and technical knowledge aren't correlated.

Language sidebar:

You might want to alter your word choice a bit. As an American, “must be convicted” reads as “must be found guilty in court”, which I’m pretty sure isn’t what you meant. Even changing the order to “brave, convicted and honest” would help — putting the ambiguous item in the middle of the list helps to clarify which meaning you intended.

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