Epstein files reveal the power – and peril – of online sleuths doing the government’s work
- Written by Oliver Alfred Guidetti, Post Doctoral Researcher, Cybersecurity and Psychology, University of Wollongong
A large release of important documents once meant teams of journalists staying back, working through piles of records late into the night.
Today, it triggers something closer to a public audit. The January 30 publication of more than three million documents related to convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has mobilised thousands of online...





