Ordinarily, updates to the SecureDrop servers are performed automatically within 24 hours of a release. After the release of SecureDrop 0.11.0 on December 11, our monitoring service indicated that some SecureDrop instances were not updated as expected. Instances known to be impacted were set up before SecureDrop version 0.4 (released July 25, 2017). Read More

Photograph of Aaron Swartz by Sage Ross, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike LicenseAaron Swartz was a brilliant computer scientist, a passionate digital rights activist, and a dear friend to many. He believed fiercely in freedom of speech and information, and dedicated his brief but full life to building the open web, defending … Read More

Update, October 25: The upstream issue causing the problem described in this advisory has been resolved. If you encounter this problem again during the installation, please let us know by filing a bug report. During a SecureDrop installation against servers with with UEFI boot mode enabled, the ./securedrop-admin install command … Read More

A configuration error in Tails 3.9 will cause the following operations to fail: Installing SecureDrop using an Admin Workstation running Tails 3.9 Updating the SecureDrop code on an Admin or Journalist workstation running Tails 3.9 The securedrop-admin setup step will fail with the following error: W: The repository 'tor+http://sdscoq7snqtznauu.onion/torproject.org tor-experimental-0.3.4.x-stretch … Read More

Come work on SecureDrop at the Electronic Frontier Foundation offices on Wednesday, August 15, 2018! Event details:  Location: 815 Eddy St, San Francisco, CA 94109  Date: 6:00PM to 9:00PMSecureDrop is a whistleblower submission system that media organizations use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources. Originally written … Read More

Through the last year, the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) has sponsored the development of a prototype for an integrated SecureDrop Workstation based on Qubes OS. Thanks to the work of developer Joshua Thayer, we now have a working prototype that combines the Journalist Workstation and Secure Viewing Station … Read More

Since Freedom of the Press Foundation launched SecureDrop in October 2013 (building on the DeadDrop codebase originally developed by the late Aaron Swartz), the open source platform has become the de facto standard for secure communication between news organizations and sources. Our SecureDrop directory currently contains 33 instances ranging from … 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