Campaign
campaign:flash_drives_for_freedom
Also: Flash Drive for Freedom project, Flash Drives for Freedom initiative
Initiative to collect, prepare, and smuggle USB drives containing outside information into North Korea.
Initiative to collect, prepare, and smuggle USB drives containing outside information into North Korea.
“They called the project Flash Drives for Freedom.”
“we’ve raised enough support to be able to send in, at this point, more than 70,000 flash drives into North Korea.”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | DEVELOPED_BY | Alex Gladstein | Explicit | 71 |
| outgoing | USES | USB flash drive | Explicit | 71 |
| outgoing | USES | SD card | Explicit | 71 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | removable-media information smuggling | Explicit | 71 |
| outgoing | TARGETS | North Korea | Explicit | 71 |
Flash Drives for Freedom DEVELOPED_BY Alex Gladstein
Jack says Alex developed the plan that became the Flash Drives for Freedom project.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 71 Details
“Alex developed a plan to sneak USB drives into North Korea. They called the project Flash Drives for Freedom”
Flash Drives for Freedom USES USB flash drive
The campaign collects and sends USB flash drives containing outside information into North Korea.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Alex Gladstein EP 71 Details
“we’ve raised enough support to be able to send in, at this point, more than 70,000 flash drives into North Korea”
Flash Drives for Freedom USES SD card
The information-smuggling effort also uses SD cards because they are small and easy to conceal.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 71 Details
“putting information on USB flash drives and sometimes SD cards”
Flash Drives for Freedom INVOLVES removable-media information smuggling
The campaign smuggles information into North Korea using removable storage media.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 71 Details
“There are people who are smuggling information into North Korea”
Flash Drives for Freedom TARGETS North Korea
The campaign is intended to get information to people inside North Korea and influence their understanding of the outside world.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Alex Gladstein EP 71 Details
“Why don’t we try to help the people in North Korea?”