marianoju

I understand you used Nuix to process, index, and analyze the 11.5 million documents totaling 2.6 terabyte of data. Carl Barron has stated that the initial indexing of the material started in September of 2015 and took about 2 weeks (https://youtu.be/31suMWkgdo4?t=1m45s), and journalists started then with their work to “connect the dots”. What other software did you use? What was your working procedure with hundreds of collaborators? Was every journalist free to follow their own lead? What rules were set / incentives provided for journalists to put work into the project and prevent free-riding?

They used two-factor authentication, not “two factor encryption”. They took the risk because they had close to 400 journalists from 70 countries collaborating on it. They used Nuix.

An entire year passed between the first message from the source and the publication of the data. Why did it take so long? Did your informant negotiate any conditions (besides confidentiality) that you are free to talk about which made it difficult to work faster? Did you encounter difficulties to establish a secure way of communication? What happened in the months between the first contact in April 2015 and the delivery of the material in September 2015?

Why did your informant choose to share the data with the SZ? Had he tried to contact other media before?

You have had only access to data from of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, and this data alone relates to 214,000 shell companies. How big a tip of the iceberg do you consider this to be? Which long-term effects do you think will this disclosure have on the use of offshore letterbox companies for tax evasion?