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Freedom of the Press Foundation's comment to the UN on the protection of sources and whistleblowers

The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, recently called for outside comments on the protection of sources and whistleblowers around the world and will be …

Why aren’t more news organizations protecting their e-mail with STARTTLS encryption?

The Guardian published a shocking story a few weeks ago showing that in 2008 Britain’s spy agency GCHQ collected and stored the e-mails of some of the world’s biggest news …

Digital security lessons from the Barrett Brown case

During a hearing last month in the case of Barrett Brown — a jailed journalist known for his advocacy of the hacktivist collective Anonymous — the Justice Department (DOJ) entered …