COLLABORATE

This important potentious niche human rights project, itself a robust, sustained assertion of the publisher's and author's rights of lawful free speech, invites:-

• participation from lawyers and other professionals, including through the project's honorary advisory board. The project offers stimulating interaction; the prospect of interesting, helpful networking; and opportunities through its multimedia products and events etc. for professional visibility in various markets

• participation from anyone anywhere who wants to get involved on any level, including to share useful relevant data. We welcome relevant input from and proactive interaction with victims, villains, reformed villains, police, prosecutors, judges, regulators, journalists, investigators, analysts, etc. There's quite a community out there of real people who have knowledge and experience to contribute. We value all of it

• inquiries from interested investors: see the DONATE page.

HOW CAN I SECURELY COMMUNICATE IN WRITING? Some considerations:-

• See the 'be cautious, not credulous' paragraph below about some correspondence platforms we don't use

• We are not unqualifiedly sold on the idea of end-to-end encryption: we are not entirely sure what it bespeaks in every case. We are ok with zero-access encryption. We find PGP intensely annoying, especially the absurd idea of a 'public key' (and don't see what PGP adds if email is already encrypted on the email provider's server, encrypted in transit and encrypted at the recipient's end)

• The simplest quickest way to correspond with Richard J. Szrabe is, at least initially, by email, with attachments, to rszrabe@protonmail.com (use a secure browser if you like) 

• Once we get started and want to take things further, we'll suggest genuinely secure platforms for video conversations and further correspondence.

WHAT DATA CAN I CONTRIBUTE? For proper use by Richard J. Szrabe in this project, you can email us, nonymously and or anonymously, relevant:-

• tips

• documents

• comments, criticisms, opinions, impressions, theories, hypotheses, ideas, etc.

• cases

• stories, including of good and bad experiences

• fully supported, detailed corroboration and or refutation of relevant assertions, allegations and accusations made by this project

• names

• contacts and connections

• any other data you think are appropriate to the project.

BREACHING CONFIDENTIALITY: Divulging another person's confidential data in breach of your legal obligations of confidentiality is not that problematic if done in the course of protected whistleblowing and or when complying with a legal obligation to disclose actual or apprehended criminality.

IS EVERYTHING I SEND CONFIDENTIAL COMPREHESIVELY AND INDEFINITELY? Yes. Richard J. Szrabe is used to dealing with highly confidential data. He is personally accountable directly to you for the indefinitely secure, private, confidential storage, handling and use of every written and oral communication to him no matter what.

WHAT WE DON'T WANT: This project has no interest in assertions, allegations or accusations that have no basis in fact.

BE CAUTIOUS, NOT CREDULOUS: We prefer to minimise the ways in which you can communicate with us securely. Whether or not in any way wholly secure in every relevant location in an intelligible rational transparent verifiable-to-destruction way, we don't like some 'secure' platforms, including (to take a few obvious examples) SecureDrop ('active instances'?); Session (limited to one's existing contact list, which multiply defeats the object); Signal (requires a phone number); Threema (phone); WhatsApp (owned by a social media company; fiddly and unreliable re exporting an account's entire chat archive, or one or more particular chats, to protonmail); or not-end-to-end-encrypted email of any kind; or gmail. And of course stay away from all social media as a disclosure technique.

Subject to the above, this National Whistleblower Center page has a few helpful (and some unhelpful) tips on how to whistleblow securely, including online. This project's forthcoming book Defamation War Room discusses protecting discovered whisteblowers — obviously we don't like that at all — from defamation litigation.