Donate to me (ASI leaks)

Disclaimer

Contains politically sensitive info.
Quick note. May update quickly based on new info.

Request for funding

The biggest benefit of getting even a small amount of funding (say $40k annual) will be that I could shift to the US and live among peer group who also care a lot about similar problems. Having a peer group would help me stay motivated and get more stuff done.

Given below are more ambitious projects that might require more funding than that.

Request for $1M

If I got $1M in funding, I'd use it towards some or all of the following projects.

Objective: Get secret information out of US ASI orgs (including classified information). Host it in countries outside the US. Trust that someone else will make use of this info to influence US and world politics.

Black DAQ

whistleblower/spy guide
hacker guide

Grey DAQ

internet doxxing tool
drones/cctv outside offices/ datacentres

High attention

persuade Indian, Russian, Chinese journalists to run a SecureDrop-like system
digital journalism guide
OR run a journalist outlet outside the US myself, until I can persuade existing journalists to do better

All the DAQ will be aimed at leadership and employees of people involved in building ASI. (See my other documents for who exactly is included in this.)

I'm not very optimistic on grey DAQ uncovering high-profile info, just that it could force the ASI company employees to isolate further from rest of society. I know many people have moral qualms about it but I don't. I see it as more-or-less inevitable, and given that it is inevitable I'd rather have it work for everyone and against everyone, than let those with power alone decide who it gets used against.

More details

Whistleblower guide

Not bottlenecked
Will work on this
In short, US whistleblowers leaking classified documents should focus on getting to Russia like Snowden did, instead of improving their opsec and hoping to stay anonymous

Hacker guide

Knowledge bottlenecked
I don't know enough to offer them technical advice. Mostly I'll offer moral support and maybe some legal advice.

Internet doxxing tool

Weakly capital bottlenecked
I tried building this by doing embedding search and anomalous word counts on reddit extract of commoncrawl. This will likely work better as a two pass system, first pass use PII, second pass do stylometrics.
I need capital for more servers, and maybe to purchase some PII datasets similar to whitepages/weleakinfo/snusbase.

Drones/CCTV outside offices / datacentres

Capital bottleneck
Need capital for lawyers, and for setting up the cameras
This is technically legal in US (not UK) but will definitely be contested on legal grounds if I actually did this.

High attention guide

Weakly capital bottlenecked. Attention bottlenecked.
Most journalists-by-training lack skills both at opsec and at becoming popular on the internet.
- Opsec means things like advertising a SecureDrop-like system or a Signal number.
- Becoming popular means things like understanding heavy-tailed distribution of attention and importance of building a brand around your face and understanding what readers want.
Most journalists-by-training are being replaced by YouTubers across US, Europe, India and Russia atleast.
I'm unsure if I should be trying to teach existing journalists this stuff or just run a non-US journalist outlet myself. Having funding and a public brand will enable me to try both approaches.

Misc

If I had $1M I'd definitely select a lawyer with experience in international law.
If I had $1M I'd also spend atleast $100/mo each on a security guard (as needed), a Chinese language teacher and a therapist.