This is a presentation on the modern history of leaks, from the Pentagon Papers to the end of WikiLeaks' publishing era. The talk looks at leak publishers and press consortiums, and the changes in how newsrooms, the public, and the powers that be have responded to leaks and leakers, asking how newsrooms have handled the rapidly changing landscape of leaks, hackers, and leak laundering. The talk concludes with a brief look at what AssangeLeaks can tell us about WikiLeaks and the government's case against it.

The Indian "hacker-for-hire" operation, Appin, obtained an order from a court in New Delhi that forced the global newswire Reuters to remove investigative reporting about Appin's criminal enterprise. Users of Appin's services included American lawyers, Russian oligarchs, and Scandinavian businesses, among others. With that court order from New Delhi, Appin's American lawyers demanded that other media outlets remove their reporting, and many have complied. Appin's lawyers issued threats to the Internet Archive, the New Yorker, various podcasts, and many others. Litigation between Reuters and Appin is ongoing. What threats can this case pose to free speech and the integrity of cyber threat research?

Whatever you call it - transparency project, publication collective, or journalism tech - Distributed Denial of Secrets has built the world's largest library of once-secret information, publishing over 100 million leaked files from 60 countries. Including all the pending publications, DDoSecrets has grown larger than the Library of Congress. Like an "endless scroll" of social media, terabytes of data get regularly liberated from cartels, governments, and corporations. Mixed in with the stream of useful leaks is a flood of disinformation, bolstered by AI-powered deepfakes and state-sponsored troll farms. How are we adapting - or failing to adapt? How can hackers and data journalists collaborate to navigate the ransomware blogs, Breach Forums, and hacktivist Discord channels of variable quality? Core DDoSecrets members Emma Best and Lorax Horne come together to discuss the greatest challenges of today's leaks librarians, and what the future of source protection looks like in a world saturated by misinformation and capitalism.