Professional Documents
Culture Documents
One might say that if the o/cial channels used for criminal
investigation have not succeeded, that a crowd-sourced investigation
might be seen a “hail-mary” option.
What is WikiLeaks?
WikiLeaks publishes large datasets of leaked o/cial materials
“involving war, spying and corruption”. To understand the connection
to crowdsourcing and crime, it’s best to think of Wikileaks as an online
safe, into which huge amounts of information and data are placed all at
once, commonly referred to as a data dump. The most important part
about this online “safe” is that nothing can be placed inside of it which
has not been veriCed to be authentic.
All adults know code language when they use it or see it. If we want to
convey something covert to a colleague or friend, we use code. This is a
human understanding that can’t be “un-known” once it is known. This
is the nature of code. It hides something. Once the code is “revealed”,
you can never again occupy the same awareness you did before the
information was “uncoded”. As the old saying goes, “once you see
something, you can’t ‘unsee’ it”.
All someone has to do is ask him directly about the email codes, or the
instagram photos, or the obsession with dark art, art about child abuse
and art about cannibalism, art about beheading and autopsies and
nightmares of children-or ask him why he speaks fondly of his friend,
Dennis Hastert, a convicted child rapist.