- It may be that the document is a PDF, not a Word file.
- It may be the case that the PDF that someone has access to is not text-copyable.
- So, it might be the case that as a first step a person with access to the document might need to first get it on an unsecured computer, transfer it to a thumbdrive, take the thumbdrive to another private computer with OCR software, and do OCR on the copy of the PDF to get ASCII.
But then I think the rest of your suggestions might work; though I should stress that the world is full of people who know more about this than I do.
1. Allow me to assure you that Just Foreign Policy is a legitimate organization.
2. Our effort is legit: we plan to do exactly what we've said we'll do; if WikiLeaks publishes the TPP negotiating text, we will write to everyone who made a pledge to donate to WikiLeaks and encourage them to fulfill their pledge, giving them the information on how to do so.
3. We certainly agree with everyone who says that the TPP should never be secret in the first place and no-one should have to issue a reward for it and whoever has it should certainly leak it by any means they have available. But, since it had not leaked so far, we thought it was a good idea to "up the ante," as you say.
4. Note that our reward is not for the leaker, but for the publisher. So, the dynamic of the leaking act is still loyalty to the public interest.
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re: "There's a way leaks cld be done w/o finding out who did the leak"
Thanks, FritzOwl, for those suggestions.
Here are some further considerations:
- It may be that the document is a PDF, not a Word file.
- It may be the case that the PDF that someone has access to is not text-copyable.
- So, it might be the case that as a first step a person with access to the document might need to first get it on an unsecured computer, transfer it to a thumbdrive, take the thumbdrive to another private computer with OCR software, and do OCR on the copy of the PDF to get ASCII.
But then I think the rest of your suggestions might work; though I should stress that the world is full of people who know more about this than I do.
Just Foreign Policy: "we are indeed a legitimate organization"
1. Allow me to assure you that Just Foreign Policy is a legitimate organization.
2. Our effort is legit: we plan to do exactly what we've said we'll do; if WikiLeaks publishes the TPP negotiating text, we will write to everyone who made a pledge to donate to WikiLeaks and encourage them to fulfill their pledge, giving them the information on how to do so.
3. We certainly agree with everyone who says that the TPP should never be secret in the first place and no-one should have to issue a reward for it and whoever has it should certainly leak it by any means they have available. But, since it had not leaked so far, we thought it was a good idea to "up the ante," as you say.
4. Note that our reward is not for the leaker, but for the publisher. So, the dynamic of the leaking act is still loyalty to the public interest.