Journalists Successfully Used Secure Computing To Expose Panama Papers

Journalists Successfully Used Secure Computing To Expose Panama Papers
 August 18, 2017 Eurasia Review  0 Comment Computers, Hacking, Internet, Media, Panama Papers
By Eurasia Review


A team of researchers from Clemson University, Columbia University and the University of Washington has discovered a security success in an unlikely place: the “Panama Papers.”

“Success stories in computer security are rare,” said Franzi Roesner, assistant professor at the University of Washington and one of the principal investigators on this project. “But we discovered that the journalists involved in the Panama Papers project seem to have achieved their security goals.”

The Panama Papers project was a year-long collaborative investigation of leaked documents detailing the uses of offshore funds by clients of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. During this project, a large, diverse group of globally distributed journalists collaborated remotely via the internet while achieving their security goals.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers investigation exposed offshore companies linked to more than 140 politicians in more than 50 countries — including 14 current or former world leaders, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). It also uncovered offshore hideaways tied to mega-banks, corporate bribery scandals, drug kingpins, Syria’s air war on its own citizens and a network of people close to Russian President Vladimir Putin that shuffled as much as $2 billion around the world, ICIJ said.

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