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Whistleblowers who expose big cases to the press gain massive media attention when their identities are revealed to the public. Recent major cases, such as the WikiLeaks revelations, made possible through Chelsea Manning, a US Army soldier turned whistleblower, and the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance revelations, leaked by Edward Snowden, a former US intelligence analyst who leaked thousands of classified documents to the press, are probably the clearest recent examples of this pattern. WikiLeaks, an organisation founded in 2006 by the hacker Julian Assange, pioneered a new technological approach to whistleblowing, by allowing sources to send documents and information to its staff in an anonymous way, thanks to an encrypted online dropbox. In late 2010, WikiLeaks published three major leaks–in cooperation with some international news outlets–concerning the wars in Afghanistan …