SecureDrop: Two Years on and Beyond

Presented at The Eleventh HOPE (2016), July 22, 2016, 9 p.m. (60 minutes).

Two years ago, Freedom of the Press Foundation introduced HOPE to their just-launched SecureDrop project, the open-source whistleblower submission system for journalists and news organizations that was originally created by the late Aaron Swartz. Now over three dozen news organizations around the world are using SecureDrop, and they've learned a ton about how journalists and sources interact securely. This talk will share a lot of this information for the first time. How is SecureDrop working in newsrooms? What challenges and threats does the system face? And what does the next generation SecureDrop look like?

Presenters:

• Garrett Robinson
  Garrett Robinson is the CTO at Freedom of the Press Foundation and the lead developer of SecureDrop. His interest in empowering whistleblowers through technology began when he was involved with environmental activism in Appalachia, and that led to the creation of a whistleblower submission site called Honest Appalachia. He previously worked full time as a security and privacy engineer for Mozilla, and also for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Links:

• https://xi.hope.net/schedule.html#-securedrop-two-years-on-and-beyond- (Conference Schedule)
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Eleventh HOPE (2016)/The Eleventh HOPE (2016) - SecureDrop Two Years On and Beyond.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1Y2wyfMgCQ

Similar Presentations:

• HOPE X (2014) / SecureDrop: A WikiLeaks in Every Newsroom
• The Circle Of HOPE (2018) / Spotlight on SecureDrop: Anonymous Whistleblowing in the Trump Era
• HOPE 2020 Virtual Rescheduled / The SecureDrop Journalist Workstation: Handling Anonymous Submissions With Qubes OS