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DDOSecrets was referred to as the 'heir apparent to Wikileaks'. From your perspective what does DDOSecrets model demonstrate about the future of leaktivism and how it interfaces with journalism? How are these boundaries evolving? and what can be done to protect the right to free speech as social media outlets move to ban/censor leaks as Twitter and Reddit have done?

Prior to your more recent great work with private prisons and militias you did some journalism while embedded in places like Yemen and Syria. How do you think the mentality of those enforcing white supremacy, capitalism, and the idea of a Christian homeland in the USA through extra-state militaristic interventions are similar or dissimilar from groups in the Middle East and North Africa who are exercising extra-state power militarily while emerging from ideologies and cultural values more closely aligned with Islam?

Can't share info about who the cops are and what they do, but have to pay their wages under threat of imprisonment. Is that the world you want to live in?

Hi David. I'm a fan of The Wire, Homicide, and The Corner. The accurate depictions of the streets in Baltimore is something that is really uncommon (it may be the only work of its kind) within television and really any medium attempting to portray life in poor inner city areas regarding its candor, clarity, and lack of sensationalism.

You have gone on record as saying you were uninterested in season 1 of the podcast Serial which portrayed a homicide in Baltimore in 1999. It had many geographical, thematic, and even personal (Lt. Massey) intersections with your work. Have you given Serial a listen? If so, what are your thoughts? Or are you still not interested? And if not, why not?

One of the main worries would be getting sued by the private prison company. I'm not sure what kind of contract they would need to sign, although for $9 an hour I'm guessing their due diligence was pretty low. There is a physical danger to being in an understaffed prison where violent altercations happen regularly. I don't know if the prisons themselves would have insurance that already covers their employees, or what the worker's comp situation would be.