The SecureDrop team has introduced the SecureDrop Protocol, designed to enhance security for whistleblowers and journalists. In addition to providing end-to-end encryption, the new protocol eliminates the need for accounts, prevents message flow tracking, and limits the server’s ability to collect metadata. Built with robust cryptographic principles, it’s engineered for …
In an independent review, the Freedom of the Press Foundation tool that helps journalists work with electronic documents safely was found to have no critical vulnerabilities
As a proof of concept, we're now also publishing the Press Freedom Tracker’s incident database on the decentralized web.
Freedom of the Press Foundation is now the official home of Dangerzone, an open source tool developed by Micah Lee at First Look Media to make it safer for journalists to work with electronic documents sent to them by sources.
Join us November 10 and 11 for a SecureDrop hackathon and a weekend full of talks, trainings, and privacy-preserving projects, in honor of computer scientist, activist, and friend Aaron Swartz.
We're releasing Track The News, a new tool to monitor stories from news outlets for words or phrases that matter to you. It's the framework behind @FOIAFeed, our public records reporting bot.
The moment a news organization is given access to highly sensitive materials, the journalist and their source may be targeted by state and non-state actors, with the goal of preventing disclosures. How can whistleblowers and news organizations prepare for the worst? Sunder is a new tool that may help with this and similar use cases.
Use the sensors in your phone to protect yourself.
We're releasing new software to create PDF archives of stories written by individual journalists formerly employed at DNAinfo or the Gothamist network of sites.
Today the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School has published a first-of-its-kind study on how newsrooms are using SecureDrop, our open-source whistleblower submission system that is now in-use at over thirty news organizations worldwide.People often ask us: How effective is SecureDrop? Do sources use it? These …
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