A whistleblower is a person who reports misconduct, alleged dishonest or illegal activities occurring in an organization. A whistleblower may be classified for violating a law, rule, regulation, or direct threat to the public interest, such as fraud, health and safety violations, and corruption. The first whistleblower protection law in the United States was enacted on July 30, 1778. The Continental Congress had a unanimous vote. In 1777 Richard Marven and Samuel Shaw blew the whistle and suffered severe retaliation from Esek Hopkins, the commander in chief of the Continental Navy. There have been many whistleblowers since the days of Marven and Shaw, one of the biggest whistleblowers today is an Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist named Julian Paul Assange, for whom he is known as the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks. Its website publishes anonymous news sources and whistleblowers. It is similar to Wikipedia in that it is open to the public and anyone can post something on the website. Except WikiLeaks are news sources from people publishing information about whatever is g...