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Re:Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens by sneak on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @07:03AM (#15489996)
And yet somehow we have Fake Steve Jobs, The Grugq, and the Shadow Brokers.

Pretty sure pseudonymity is just as effective for investigative reporting bylines as using an identifier tied to the address at which your family sleeps.

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Re:Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens by dagw on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @07:23AM (#15490073)
Pretty sure pseudonymity is just as effective for investigative reporting bylines as using an identifier tied to the address at which your family sleeps.

I'm just not sure I believe that. Do you think the Snowden leaks, for example, would have had the same spread and impact if it was just an pseudonymous data dump and without someone like Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian adding a 'face' and legitimacy to the information?

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Re:Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens by sneak on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:58PM (#15493749)
The face doesn’t need to be his face.
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Re:Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens by r00fus on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @09:15AM (#15490613)
pseudonymity != anonymity.

Most pseudonyms give away plenty of information to be able to be tracked by an assassin or other kind of "influencer".

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