{"id":20260,"date":"2012-07-16T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=20260"},"modified":"2015-03-09T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T16:38:13","slug":"paranoia-anonymous-launches-wikileaks-esque-site-for-data-dumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/07\/paranoia-anonymous-launches-wikileaks-esque-site-for-data-dumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Par:AnoIA: Anonymous Launches WikiLeaks-like Site for Data Dumps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frustrated by the lack of impact from Anonymous\u2019 otherwise famous hacks and data dumps, and the slow pace of material coming out of WikiLeaks, participants in the Anonymous collective have launched a WikiLeaks-like site called Par:AnoIA (Potentially Alarming Research: Anonymous Intelligence Agency<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Paranoia, which debuted in March, is a new publishing platform built by Anonymous to host Anonymous data leaks that\u2019s trying to find a solution to a problem that plagues news sites, government transparency advocates, and large-website owners everywhere: how to organize more data than any human could possibly read.<\/p>\n

The site marks a departure from the groups\u2019 previous modus operandi<\/em>, where it would publicly drop the documents, make them available in a torrent \u2014 usually as a zip file, and then move on. By contrast, the goal of Paranoia is to curate and present content to a hopefully interested public.<\/p>\n

Paranoia anons say they don\u2019t gather the data themselves; like WikiLeaks, they take submissions, but from the Anonymous community. The project was created as a response to a year of Anonymous releases where the announcement of document dumps generated plenty of media, but the documents\u2019 content got little coverage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason no one cares about these leaks, as a general rule of thumb, is that they can\u2019t do<\/strong> anything with [them],\u201d said a Paranoia anon volunteering on document processing for the project in an online chat with Wired. \u201cBasically, [we’re] making it accessible to anyone that wants to do something with it, in a proper usable format.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of the motivation to build the leak site, the Paranoia volunteer said, was to get material out faster than WikiLeaks\u2019 long lead times. \u201cI\u2019m pretty sick by these 20-year-plans,\u201d said the founding anon.<\/p>\n

In 2012, WikiLeaks, which no longer has a way to publicly upload documents, has leaned on the anarchic collective for its major releases, including\u00a0Stratfor<\/a>\u00a0and the recent\u00a0Syrian emails<\/a>. Could Paranoia represent a threat to the beleaguered leaking site\u2019s recent lifeline?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. Guess that\u2026 depends on WikiLeaks.\u201d said founding anon, who went on to say that the leaks site has recently contacted Paranoia. \u201c(It) will be interesting to see what they have to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday [13 Jul 2012],\u00a0WikiLeaks accused one of the main Anonymous Twitter accounts of promoting insecure proxies, hinting that the account was being run at the direction of law enforcement<\/a>. AnonymousIRC slapped back, including a Tweet alluding to\u00a0WikiLeaks being dependent on Anonymous for its relevance:<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frustrated by the lack of impact from Anonymous\u2019 otherwise famous hacks and data dumps, and the slow pace of material coming out of WikiLeaks, participants in the Anonymous collective have launched a WikiLeaks-like site called Par:AnoIA (Potentially Alarming Research: Anonymous Intelligence Agency).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-whistleblowing-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}