I really like the idea of focussing these mini wikileaks type org's on specific geographical areas..

I resteemed this to help spread awareness for ya, but I have a few things I'm curious about.

I've also been working on a model for a decentralized wikileaks alternative to be deployed on the @steemleak account and the main obstacles I'm seeing are:

• Actual anonymous submissions - you "guarrantee" to keep identities anonymous, but then you only accept via an unencrypted gmail account. I'm not sure if I need to spell out the problems with that, if I do then I doubt you're ready for this project tbh.

I was already thinking the "securedrop" software being pushed by wikileaks wasn't really secure since it's reliant on tor ... And tor isn't magic, it's vulnerable to many de-anonymization attacks (especially versus state level actors/resources)

• You claim that info/docs will be scrutinized by experiences journalists and lawyers before release. How do you plan to keep these people onboard and honest (ie: not withholding true leaks or allowing personal bias to affect decisions on what I assume would be an volunteer position)

• How do you plan to handle file hosting ? Whilst the steem blockchain is great for text data, incentivizing large file hosting for potentially illegal material (in some jurisdictions) is a tricky problem.

I do feel there is a definite need for more alternatives to wikileaks - but I want to be sure they're not just honeypots, or being run insecurely and putting good people in potentially serious risk.

I'm available on steemit.chat and steemspeak discord almost 24/7 if you ever wanna brainstorm this :)