Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"?
Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"?
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Collect all your evidence into one large archive, upload it somewhere and make it known that if you die of anything other than natural causes, that information will become available to EVERYONE.
Read up on how "dead man's switches" work. If you don't send a signal online, log into a particular account on a regular basis, that sends the release signal.
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But why bother holding back in the first place. If this is whistleblower information like Boeing safety issues, there's no point in setting up a dead man's switch. You want to release it all immediately in the first place, because keeping it to yourself undermines the point of blowing the whistle
Might only be the whistleblowing stuff. Might not. Guess you'll have to kill me to find out.
Then the incentive becomes to stop a whistleblower faster if they had a dead-man cache than if they released it all at once. There's no guarantee that the whistleblower is being honest or is capable enough to undertake something like that but there's always a risk that the whistleblower may disclose that information anyway. Better to stop the whistleblower by arresting them first and deal with the potential fallout than negotiate. Now the whistleblower's reputation is ruined, if they're behind bars they're effectively silenced, and they're as good as dead to society without all that messy work trying to fake a suicide.