How to contact WikiLeaks? What is Tor? Tips for Sources After Submitting
How to contact WikiLeaks? What is Tor? Tips for Sources After Submitting

Contact

If you need help using Tor you can contact WikiLeaks for assistance in setting it up using our simple webchat available at: /talk

If you can use Tor, but need to contact WikiLeaks for other reasons use our secured webchat available at http://wlchatc3pjwpli5r.onion

We recommend contacting us over Tor if you can.

How to contact WikiLeaks? What is Tor? Tips for Sources After Submitting

Tor

Tor is an encrypted anonymising network that makes it harder to intercept internet communications, or see where communications are coming from or going to.

In order to use the WikiLeaks public submission system as detailed above you can download the Tor Browser Bundle, which is a Firefox-like browser available for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux and pre-configured to connect using the anonymising system Tor.

Tails

If you are at high risk and you have the capacity to do so, you can also access the submission system through a secure operating system called Tails. Tails is an operating system launched from a USB stick or a DVD that aim to leaves no traces when the computer is shut down after use and automatically routes your internet traffic through Tor. Tails will require you to have either a USB stick or a DVD at least 4GB big and a laptop or desktop computer.

How to contact WikiLeaks? What is Tor? Tips for Sources After Submitting

Tips

Our submission system works hard to preserve your anonymity, but we recommend you also take some of your own precautions. Please review these basic guidelines.

1. Contact us if you have specific problems

If you have a very large submission, or a submission with a complex format, or are a high-risk source, please contact us. In our experience it is always possible to find a custom solution for even the most seemingly difficult situations.

2. What computer to use

If the computer you are uploading from could subsequently be audited in an investigation, consider using a computer that is not easily tied to you. Technical users can also use Tails to help ensure you do not leave any records of your submission on the computer.

3. Do not talk about your submission to others

If you have any issues talk to WikiLeaks. We are the global experts in source protection – it is a complex field. Even those who mean well often do not have the experience or expertise to advise properly. This includes other media organisations.

How to contact WikiLeaks? What is Tor? Tips for Sources After Submitting

After

1. Do not talk about your submission to others

If you have any issues talk to WikiLeaks. We are the global experts in source protection – it is a complex field. Even those who mean well often do not have the experience or expertise to advise properly. This includes other media organisations.

2. Act normal

If you are a high-risk source, avoid saying anything or doing anything after submitting which might promote suspicion. In particular, you should try to stick to your normal routine and behaviour.

3. Remove traces of your submission

If you are a high-risk source and the computer you prepared your submission on, or uploaded it from, could subsequently be audited in an investigation, we recommend that you format and dispose of the computer hard drive and any other storage media you used.

In particular, hard drives retain data after formatting which may be visible to a digital forensics team and flash media (USB sticks, memory cards and SSD drives) retain data even after a secure erasure. If you used flash media to store sensitive data, it is important to destroy the media.

If you do this and are a high-risk source you should make sure there are no traces of the clean-up, since such traces themselves may draw suspicion.

4. If you face legal action

If a legal action is brought against you as a result of your submission, there are organisations that may help you. The Courage Foundation is an international organisation dedicated to the protection of journalistic sources. You can find more details at https://www.couragefound.org.

Submit documents to WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks publishes documents of political or historical importance that are censored or otherwise suppressed. We specialise in strategic global publishing and large archives.

The following is the address of our secure site where you can anonymously upload your documents to WikiLeaks editors. You can only access this submissions system through Tor. (See our Tor tab for more information.) We also advise you to read our tips for sources before submitting.

http://ibfckmpsmylhbfovflajicjgldsqpc75k5w454irzwlh7qifgglncbad.onion

If you cannot use Tor, or your submission is very large, or you have specific requirements, WikiLeaks provides several alternative methods. Contact us to discuss how to proceed.

How to contact WikiLeaks? What is Tor? Tips for Sources After Submitting

Supporters

24 October 2011

What you can do to help (other than donate):

First of all, become a member of Friends of WikiLeaks at wlfriends.org, then sign up to our Twitter feed or Facebook feed to stay up to date.

Bloggers/internet users: (1) Add the WikiLeaks donations fundraising banner to your site with the following instructions: http://wikileaks.ru/wlnet.txt. (2) Create awareness over what WikiLeaks has revealed in its five years of existence, refute the smears, dispel the misconceptions, set the record straight. Demand from the editors good, fact-based journalism when it is lacking.

IT experts: Structure content, torrent, search functions, research the content

Graphic designers: Visualise database patterns, create illustrations, make complex content viewable and understandable to the general public.

Lawyers: WikiLeaks wants to litigate in different jurisdictions against the finance institutions that have put up an unlawful and arbitrary blockade to cripple WikiLeaks. Litigation proceedings have already started in the EU, and are underway in several other countries. If you think you can help, contact us on litigjur@mail.be and let us know what your specialty is, how you can help, and how much time you can dedicate to lending your support to WikiLeaks. Put LITIGATION + your country in the subject line.

Academics: Provide analysis of how WikiLeaks material impacts the production of knowledge.

Researchers: Use the archive to research your essays, dissertations, and theses. For the Cablegate material there is an easy to use interface at http://cablegatesearch.net/

Finance experts: make the arbitrary and unlawful nature of the VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Bank of America, and Western Union blockade against WikiLeaks known and understandable to the general public. What is the impact on competition laws in the EU, for example, and is there any real alternative to PayPal for internet payments? Is accountability in the private sector far-fetched when private companies are executing political decisions?

Fundraising campaigns: Benefit parties, fundraising dinners. The proceeds of these can be donated through various methods. See http://wikileaks.ru/support for how to use these methods.

Journalists: Mine the content of the material published over the past five years.

Authorised Representatives and Endorsed Supporter Projects

Official WikiLeaks statements and information will only ever be given out over the WikiLeaks site and the @wikileaks twitter account.

There are some supporter sites that have been endorsed by WikiLeaks:

News Sites:
WL Central

Julian Assange:
Sweden Versus Assange

CableGate Search Sites:
CableGate Search
Cable Drum

Supporters run our Facebook site and irc (#wikileaks on community.wikileaks.ru). Whilst we appreciate their work we can not vouch for their security or content. No official WikiLeaks comment will be given over these channels.

The "WikiLeaks Forum" is not run or endorsed by WikiLeaks and has no connection to WikiLeaks whatsoever.

No staff member from WikiLeaks will ever claim to be a staff member of WikiLeaks in the context of receiving sensitive information from you, with the exception of Julian Assange and Kristinn Hrafnsson, or as personally designated by them to you.

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