Jennifer is the chief technology officer at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), where she oversees the organization’s engineering teams. She is an engineer, researcher, and cypherpunk. Prior to this role, she was a founding engineer at Penumbra Labs, focusing on applied cryptography for privacy-preserving payments. She previously led development for the SecureDrop whistleblower platform. She also co-founded Lucy Parsons Labs, a Chicago-based civil liberties group. Jennifer has spoken at events including Hackers on Planet Earth, USENIX Enigma, and DEF CON Crypto & Privacy Village. She holds a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Chicago.
Security and privacy online are critical to protect users from eavesdroppers and attackers. The biggest success story of the last decade is HTTPS, the protocol that ensures the connection between a reader and a website is encrypted. We’ve written about this, advocated for news organizations to adopt it, and …
“Onion services,” a technology offered by Tor to ensure users can securely and privately visit particular websites, can provide a major step forward for readers who rely on the Tor network for its privacy and censorship-resistance properties.