EPRCI.net

At EPRCI, we believe that governments should be open and transparent—after all, it’s your money they’ve taken to fund their activities. We believe governments should keep no secrets from their citizens or subjects. To that end, we’ve compiled a list of projects aimed at eliminating government secrecy and exposing what they’re really doing with all that tax money.

Also see our complementary list of resources on protecting your privacy and security.

WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organization dedicated to bringing important news and information to the public. They provide an innovative, secure, and anonymous way for independent sources around the world to leak information to their journalists. WikiLeaks publishes material of ethical, political, and historical significance while keeping the identity of our sources anonymous, thus providing a universal way for the revealing of suppressed and censored injustices.

From http://wikileaks.org/. Retrieved 2011-08-21.

Cryptome

Cryptome is a website hosted in the United States since 1996 by independent scholars and architects John Young and Deborah Natsios that functions as a repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, and surveillance. According to the site:

Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance—open, secret, and classified documents—but not limited to those.

From https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cryptome. Retrieved 2011-08-21.

The Transparency Grenade

The lack of corporate and governmental transparency has been a topic of much controversy in recent years, yet our only tool for encouraging greater openness is the slow, tedious process of policy reform.

Presented in the form of a Soviet F1 Hand Grenade, the Transparency Grenade is an iconic cure for these frustrations, making the process of leaking information from closed meetings as easy as pulling a pin.

Equipped with a tiny computer, microphone and powerful wireless antenna, the Transparency Grenade captures network traffic and audio at the site and securely and anonymously streams it to a dedicated server where it is mined for information. Email fragments, HTML pages, images and voice extracted from this data are then presented on an online, public map, shown at the location of the detonation.

From http://transparencygrenade.com/. Retrieved 2012-02-22.