Talk:Distributed Denial of Secrets

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Members of Distributed Denial of Secrets

Should they be included in the article? Testimonialcaveat2 (talk) 17:12, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Formally designated as a “criminal hacker group" by US Intelligence

The group was formally designated as a “criminal hacker group" by the DHS and State Intelligence services. This is notable enough for the lede, but doesn't currently appear there.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21365448/blueleaks-dhs-distributed-denial-secrets-dds-ddosecrets-police

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7034323-CCSO-00000003.html

TuffStuffMcG (talk) 13:44, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

User:GorillaWarfare how best to include this reliably sourced, notable information in the lede?TuffStuffMcG (talk) 16:46, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This article would really benefit from a "History" section that describes the group. That could be incorporated into that. I'm not sure it's safe to say the group was "formally designated" as a criminal hacker group, though, it looks like they just used the term to refer to DDoSecrets in a bulletin. It should be added to the article, but I'm not sure if it should go in the lead unless there's additional sourcing. I'll take another look at it later this evening when I get some more time. GorillaWarfare (talk) 22:47, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for looking into it

"The transparency activist organization Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) has been formally designated as a “criminal hacker group,”

That's the opening paragraph.

Here are some other sources with the same verbiage.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/blueleaks-law-enforcement-blm/

https://www.newsweek.com/gab-hack-ceo-andrew-torba-condemns-threats-violence-against-social-network-attackers-1573148

TuffStuffMcG (talk) 00:22, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Those two sources don't seem to use the same verbiage, but yes, I did miss that The Verge wrote that. I've added the descriptor, along with some other RS descriptors, to a new "History" section. GorillaWarfare (talk) 03:58, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, great. Thanks for your time.

TuffStuffMcG (talk) 11:00, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Added to Open Government Category

Hello all, I added this article to the Open Government category based on the listing of Wikileaks in the same category, and Distributed Denial of Secrets similarity to Wikileaks in their aims and goals. If I misunderstood the purpose of that category or if you disagree, please speak up. 97.121.171.50 (talk) 00:20, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

SPLI?

Hello GorillaWarfare, you wrote "WP:SPLI" in an edit summary which doesn't seem to be a shortcut. What doc page were you referring to? --YuriNikolai (talk) 19:44, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@YuriNikolai: See the following edit summary, where I fixed the summary in a dummy edit. I accidentally hit enter and saved my edit before finishing the summary, which was supposed to say, "WP:SPLIT to List of material published by Distributed Denial of Secrets". GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 23:29, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@GorillaWarfare:Thank you, I'm sorry! That slipped right under my nose. --YuriNikolai (talk) 02:00, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]