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Created September 25, 2014 16:28
20140925 Open Source Distributed Journalism - A theoretical Case Study
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Simon is a weapons inspector working for Amnesty International and is on an assignment in east Ukraine upon growing concern that the separatists are accumulating stock piles of banned weapons.
He turns on his computer and creates a new folder in his Storj account. He syncs his phone, body cam, and microphone with the Storj folder which begins syncing all content to that folder in to the distributed cloud.
Simon knows that from this moment and until he cancels the feed, everything he does will be recorded, uploaded and timestamped to a decentralised network of self interested peers compensated for their storage and proof of publication services. (Storj peers cannot see the content of the files they store as it is fragmented and encrypted.)
Simon faces many risks to his personal safety which is why his legal identity is obscured by a PGP key which has been verified by reputable news outlets and Universities across the world. Every file he uploads will be signe
### Keybase proof
I hereby claim:
* I am MrChrisJ on github.
* I am chrisellis (https://keybase.io/chrisellis) on keybase.
* I have a public key whose fingerprint is 07FB D2E3 84B6 58F5 CD86 421C 8181 3268 159E 51D1
To claim this, I am signing this object: