2025-05-01

US Govt Whistleblower guide

I've deleted the full version of this guide as I'm currently still working on it.

I will update once I have a proper guide ready.
I continue to think most whistleblower guides on the internet are blatantly against your interests as a whistleblower, and in the interests of journalists or lawyers.

Summary of the guide:

If you are leaking US classified information, you're better off flying to Russia like Snowden did, instead of improving your opsec and hoping to stay anonymous.
- The NSA tracks every document downloaded from central DB to client machines, so your opsec being good isn't enough to protect you. Almost every person who stayed in a country within US sphere of influence after leaking classified info has been imprisoned.
If you are not leaking US classified information but only an overview of the situation based on your own word, you are better off coming out in public with a legal defence and requesting donations to fund it.
- Most people who got a good legal defence did not get imprisoned.