Brandon Stosh has described GlobaLeaks as "an open source project aimed at creating a worldwide, anonymous, censorship-resistant, distributed whistleblowing platform."[REF]
In October 2013, Tessel Renzenbrink wrote in her article "Building an Infrastructure for Whistleblowing" that "there are very few protection mechanisms in place for whistleblowers," and that because of this, "whistleblowing featured as an important topic at OHM2013, the biggest outdoor hacker festival in Europe."