Guardian launches SecureDrop whistleblowing platform a year on from Snowden revelations
The Guardian has created a secure platform that enables whistleblowers to submit confidential documents to reporters working at the newspaper.
The SecureDrop platform, which uses anonymising technology including Tor network and the Tails operating system, is hosted on a separate server from the main Guardian site and doesn’t take logs or track cookies, the Guardian reported.
The launch coincides with the one-year anniversary of The Guardian posting the first of a series of NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor.
"Protecting sources is at the core of journalism, and as the Guardian's revelations from the Edward Snowden documents over the last year have shown, it's getting ever more difficult,” Alan Rusbridger, the editor-in-chief of the Guardian told the newspaper.
“We're pleased to be able to use the best technology available to make sure we're doing everything we can to let sources talk to our journalists securely, and hope as many other outlets as possible do the same.”
The system also facilitates a secure two-way communication between sources and journalists if the source wishes to do so.