• A tribute to #James_Dolan, co-creator of #SecureDrop, who has tragically passed away at age 36
    https://freedom.press/news/tribute-james-dolan-co-creator-securedrop-who-has-tragically-passed-away-

    In 2012, James worked with Aaron Swartz and journalist Kevin Poulsen to build the original prototype of SecureDrop, the open source whistleblower submission system, which was then called DeadDrop. Poulsen described James’s role in the project’s creation in the New Yorker in 2013:

    In New York, a computer-security expert named James Dolan persuaded a trio of his industry colleagues to meet with Aaron to review the architecture and, later, the code. We wanted to be reasonably confident that the system wouldn’t be compromised, and that sources would be able to submit documents anonymously—so that even the media outlets receiving the materials wouldn’t be able to tell the government where they came from. James wrote an obsessively detailed step-by-step security guide for organizations implementing the code. “He goes a little overboard,” Aaron said in an e-mail, “but maybe that’s not a bad thing.”

    • We don’t know why James took his own life; we do know, however, he long suffered from PTSD from his time serving in the Marines during the Iraq War. It was an experience that affected him in multiple ways. He often cited the Iraq War as his inspiration for wanting to help journalists and whistleblowers; it made him realize governments needed to be much more transparent and accountable.

  • SecureDrop, l’outil idéal pour les journalistes et lanceurs d’alertes
    http://neosting.net/securedrop-deaddrop-whistleblowers

    SecureDrop, c’est un peu la boite de Pandore des journalistes pour les lanceurs d’alertes qui auront désormais un système hautement sécurisé pour dévoiler discrètement leurs documents. Il s’agît d’un système très évolué de logiciels dont le but est de créer un coffre-fort chiffré capable de recevoir des documents sensibles, tout en permettant aux sources qui […] #deaddrop #securedrop #whistleblower