from the better-the-devil-whose-phone-number-you-know dept

Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS) has been steadily pushing the limits of transparency and accountability for several years now. The project — spearheaded by Emma Best — does what other activists won’t… or perhaps simply don’t have the expertise to carry out.

DDoS made a name for itself by hitching Best’s non-stop FOIA onslaught to data and info exfiltrated from government agencies by hackers and data breaches. Add it all together and it’s a project that actually delivers transparency and, consequently, increases government accountability.

From releasing files about Russia that Wikileaks selectively chose to ignore to dumping multiple terabytes of law enforcement helicopter camera footage none of these agencies would ever have voluntarily released, DDoS does what it says on the tin: refuses to let the government’s secrets remain secret.

Today, it’s releasing information on nearly 40,000 DHS employees — something that is estimated to cover…