The Fifth Estate Page #3

by anarchists...

and crows and snowstorms...

and transparency.

My father took me to the dome

when they first built it.

I was 13.

He wasn't quite so eloquent.

Yeah, well, when I was 13,

my mum started

dating this guy...

from a nasty Australian cult

called The Family.

They believed in blue auras

and cleansing souls...

and the strict discipline

of children.

Severe beatings...

starvation diets...

regular closings

of psychiatric drugs.

My mum knew

the guy was a wanker...

but by the time

she came to her senses

they had a kid together and...

We spent the next three

years on the run.

They chased us

all over the country.

That's terrifying.

Why do you think

my hair is white?

Come on.

I want to show you something.

It's called the Tacheles.

It's an artists' squat.

They were going to tear it

down in the '90s...

but some painters occupied it.

Cool.

Listen, I better get to work.

Now?

Life on the run,

Aussie jet lag.

You stop distinguishing

between night and day.

Sorry.

So what are you working on?

Look, today was cool,

but these are

sensitive documents.

People's lives are at stake.

You can trust me.

Yes, and quiet.

There's a new leak

on the submission platform.

In my twenties, I created

a tool called Rubberhose.

It hid sensitive information

beneath layers and layers

of fake data.

WikiLeaks is based

on the same idea.

Take any message.

"Are you safe?"

"Are you safe?"

We constantly upload

fake data from fake sources...

to make it impossible

to monitor our real sources.

And their very presence

is infinitely deniable.

The system makes

leaks untraceable.

They simply turn up

on the submission platform.

Ever heard of Julius Baer?

It's a big

Swiss Bank, right?

Huge.

Manages 400 billion dollars

for the ultra-rich.

It uses offshore secrecy laws

to hide money for fat cats...

wealthy a**holes in Germany,

Switzerland, U.K.

The leak is from

someone inside the bank?

I don't know.

See the beauty of it?

Let me guess. Secret plans

for the revolution?

Jay Lim and the volunteers

in Switzerland

will analyze the docs...

but I need you to verify

that they're real.

The metadata should contain

a list of authors.

Extract it and confirm that

these people work at the bank.

What? Did you think

we just threw what we got up

on the website?

No, but...

you're just giving me the docs?

You said I could trust you.

You can.

I know.

I'm a good judge of character.

Stay offline when you're

working on the docs.

And buy yourself a cryptophone.

Julius Bar Bank,

Ralf Zilke's office.

I'm sorry, I must have

the wrong extension.

What division is this?

Personal Wealth Management.

Who were you looking for?

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