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The Bitcoin App That Could Create a Black Market For Leaked Data
The Bitcoin App That Could Create a Black Market For Leaked Data
Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED. Coin design: Gail Anderson + Joe Newton
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According to a recently published report, the report states Whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden exposed classified information because they believed their leaks were in the public interest. The next secret-spiller might be motivated instead by something less magnanimous: money.
Two free-information-focused developers have released a piece of open-source software designed to let anyone get paid in bitcoin for leaking secret information either to the public or to a private buyer. The program, which they call PayPub, is still just an early prototype. But its creators say it has all the features necessary to facilitate a new model of anonymous, for-profit online leaking—or even to help spark a decentralized black market in secret information.
“I’ve wanted for a while to make a marketplace where people can leak information and others can pay for those leaks,” says PayPub’s co-creator Amir Taaki, who has gained notoriety for his work on other radically anarchist bitcoin projects. “Leakers are taking a risk, and they should be rewarded.”
Read More Here http://www.wired.com/2014/06/paypub/
