SecureDrop

This Saturday and Sunday, we will be holding simultaneous hackathons in both Boston and San Francisco to improve SecureDrop, our open-source whistleblower submission system.If you live in San Francisco, the SecureDrop hackathon will be co-hosted by ThoughtWorks and will be held at their office in downtown San Francisco. Lunch …

Today, we’re publishing the second security audit of SecureDrop, our open-source whistleblower submission system. Since we took over managing the project in October, we have made so many upgrades to the code (based on the first security audit done by University of Washington researchers and Bruce Schneier), that we …

Starting tonight, developers from around the world will gather in at least sixteen cities to participate in a memorial hackathon dedicated to Aaron Swartz, the late coder, activist, and transparency advocate.Participants can contribute to all sort of projects Aaron was interested in, but one of the major projects everyone …

Today, Forbes launched SafeSource, the first iteration of SecureDrop since Freedom of the Press Foundation took over the project last month. SecureDrop is the open-source whistleblower submission system for journalism organizations originally coded by the late transparency advocate Aaron Swartz.Forbes investigative journalist Andy Greenberg wrote a detailed post …

One of the big questions that will inevitably come up as media organizations consider adopting SecureDrop, our new open-source whistleblower submission system, is: How secure is it?We should make one thing clear off the top: any organization or product that promises 100% security is not telling the …

October 15, 2013 San Francisco, CA: Freedom of the Press Foundation has taken charge of the DeadDrop project, an open-source whistleblower submission system originally coded by the late transparency advocate Aaron Swartz. In the coming months, the Foundation will also provide on-site installation and technical support to news organizations …