SecureDrop: Aaron Swartz's Platform for Whistleblowers Rebooted

The dream of providing would-be whistleblowers with a WikiLeaks-style safe and anonymous platform to leak incendiary documents to news organizations lives on

In May, The New Yorker launched StrongBox, a system based on DeadDrop, a program written by the late Aaron Swartz, with the help of Wired's Kevin Poulsen. Now, the non-profit Freedom of the Press Foundation has taken over the project, simplified it, and renamed it SecureDrop

The goal remains the same: having more news organizations install the system to provide their sources with a secure way of leaking documents and communicating anonymously Read more...