The Tor Project reports that the Italian Anti-Corruption Authority will now be using Tor as part of its method of collecting tips anonymously.
To comply with these standards, the Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC), an administrative watchdog, just launched their national online whistleblowing platform using onion services, giving whistleblowers who come forward a secure way to report illegal activity while protecting their identities. Most anti-corruption whistleblowers first speak out anonymously, and only when they know that their concerns are being addressed do they disclose their identities, as reported by Transparency International Italy, an organization advocating uses of Tor in the fight against corruption since 2014.
ANAC software is based on a customized version of GlobaLeaks, a whistleblowing platform by the Hermes Center that integrates Tor natively. GlobaLeaks is expected to be redistributed to all Italian public agencies (~20.000 in total) to comply with Law 179/2017 and in line with the country's recent strategic commitment to open-source software and the reuse of code.
More details are available in Italian.
Source : Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @09:18AM (3 children)
As discussed previously on HN, this service is a sham at best, but probably also a honeypot for whistleblowers. It requires JavaScript to be enabled, for the user to provide various identifying information, and I think there were other flaws I can't recall right now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @09:55AM (2 children)
Surely people block java script when browsing anonymously
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @01:47PM (1 child)
Yes, but then the site won't work. They also offer some lame excuses for why it's OK to enable JavaScript on their site, as long as you're using the Tor Browser bundle.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @04:10PM
Wow, lame. Tor people (obviously) say JS is a danger https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#TBBJavaScriptEnabled [torproject.org]