I've been thinking a lot about this whole thing. I don't want to be worried or fearful here - we have done nothing wrong! Anything we have archived was provided to us directly by them in the first place. There are whispers all over the internet, random torrents being passed around, conspiracies, etc., but what are we actually doing other than freaking ourselves out (myself at least) and going viral with an endless stream of "OMG LOOK AT THIS FILE" videos/posts.
I vote to remove any of the 'concerning' files and backfill with blank placeholder PDFS with justification, then collect everything we have so far, create file hashes, and put out a clean + stable archive on everything we have so far. a safe indexed archive We wipe away any concerns and can proceed methodically through blood trail of documents, resulting in an obvious and accessible collection of evidence. From there we can actually start organizing to create a tool that can be used to crowd source tagging, timestamping, and parsing the data. I'm a developer and am happy to offer my skillset.
Taking a step back - Its fun to do the "digital sleuth" thing for a while, but then what? We have the files..(mostly).. Great. We all have our own lives, jobs, and families, and taking actual time to dig into this and produce a real solution that can actually make a difference is a pretty big ask. That said, this feels like a moment where we finally can make an actual difference and I think its worth committing to. If any of you are interested in helping beyond archival, please lmk.
I just downloaded matrix, but I'm new to this, so I'm not sure how that all works. Happy to link up via discord, matrix, email, or whatever.
What does this contain? anything new?