The release of the next version of SecureDrop, 0.6, is scheduled for March 13, 2018. We will send out another notification through this blog, Twitter, and the support portal when the release is live. Changes that journalists and administrators should be aware of are summarized in this blog post. A … Read More

We are annoucing the release of SecureDrop 0.5.2. The important changes in this release are summarized below:Updates Tor to 0.3.2.9-1~trusty+1 on all SecureDrop serversResolves a bug in the registration of OSSEC agents during securedrop-admin-installFor full details, see the changelog. Development for this releasw as tracked in the 0.5.2 milestone on … Read More

Cross posted from the Freedom of the Press Foundation blog.It was with an extremely heavy heart that we recently learned our friend and former colleague James Dolan—one of the co-creators of SecureDrop and Freedom of the Press Foundation’s first full time employee—took his own life over the holidays. He was … Read More

Today we are announcing the release of SecureDrop 0.5.1. The important changes in this release are summarized below: SecureDrop servers will now use an apt server run by Freedom of the Press Foundation for future Tor package updates.The source and journalist interfaces are localized in four additional languages: Arabic, Chinese, … Read More

Based on publicly available information and our current understanding of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, both vulnerabilities require an adversary to have arbitrary code execution capabilities on the host. Given that SecureDrop’s Application and Monitor servers do not allow arbitrary code execution, these vulnerabilities appear not to be directly exploitable … Read More

Today we are announcing the release of SecureDrop 0.5. This release adds support for six additional languages. The important changes in this release are summarized below:  The source and journalist interfaces are localized in Dutch, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese and Spanish. Administrators are able to enable any or all of … Read More

 The release of the next version of SecureDrop, 0.5, is scheduled for December 5th, 2017. We will send out another notification through our blog on securedrop.org, Twitter, and the support portal when the release is live. User-facing changes that administrators should be aware of are summarized in this blog post. … Read More

Come work on SecureDrop at the Electronic Frontier Foundation at 815 Eddy St in San Francisco on Thursday December 7th at 6-9pm!SecureDrop is a whistleblower submission system that media organizations use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources. Originally written by Aaron Swartz, it has been maintained … Read More