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This is a bad title. There's no whistleblower at all, at least not someone official who has come forward and asked for whistleblower protection.

All we have here is an article written on the basis of a single comment on a single website by a anonymous user.



Hopefully the anonymous commenter HAS also made a proper whistleblowing process where the problems are reported confidentially to the relevant authorities.

To then comment on it anonymously in public is not in itself blowing the whistle, but it might make sense to do both at the same time.


You don't need to ask whistleblower protection to be a whistleblower


At this point we have no clue if the person who wrote the comments:

- Even works at Boeing

- Works in that department

- Is truthful about anything they claim

- Doesn't have an agenda

It's just an anonymous internet comment.

Surely some scepticism is warranted.


Surely you can't assume it's true, but the same things could be said of Hacker News commenters, if it weren't forbidden




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