Aaron Swartz's legacy lives on: SecureDrop is a WikiLeaks for any journalist In May, The New Yorker revealed what hacktivist Aaron Swartz was building before his untimely death: an encrypted dead drop system that would let whistleblowers leak documents to journalists without fear of exposing their identity. The New Yorker launched its own implementation, Strongbox, and other media outlets were free to do the same — but in August, noted security researchers at the ...
Oct. 16, 2013 - The Verge via Yahoo! News
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 ...
Oct. 15, 2013 - Mashable