Over the past month, Freedom of the Press Foundation has received significant interest in newsrooms setting up SecureDrop. Our open source whistleblower submission system is already used around the globe by large media organizations, small nonprofit newsrooms, and everything in between. We’re excited to see more adoption of SecureDrop. To…
I recently completed my third year working on SecureDrop at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Time flies when you're having fun; and not coincidentally, this is the longest I've ever held the same position at a job. In terms of numbers, by the end of 2024, I had made…
I'll be attending RustConf in Montreal this week so I wanted to take a moment to describe how we're using Rust in SecureDrop. Historically SecureDrop has always been a primarily Python project accompanied by bash scripts and then HTML/CSS/JS for the web interface. Aaron Swartz's first commit to SecureDrop was…
I am privileged to work for a non-profit organization, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which allows me to work full-time on free and open-source software, namely SecureDrop. It also pays the bills and lets me spend me free time doing other stuff that's good for humanity, like contributing to…
I haven't been very good with writing about what I've been working on in SecureDrop-land, but here is: Migrating SecureDrop’s PGP backend from GnuPG to Sequoia over on the SecureDrop website. You should read it, and then come back to read the rest of this. We had been discussing Sequoia…
