A solid roundup of advice from Micah F. Lee for sources in the age of digital surveillance: here’s how to leak to The Intercept, as safely as possible. Micah’s a former EFF-er, currently of First Look Media (publishers of The Intercept), and he is also a board member of Freedom of the Press Foundation.
This publication was created in part as a platform for journalism arising from unauthorized disclosures by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Our founders and editors are strongly committed to publishing stories based on leaked material when that material is newsworthy and serves the public interest. So ever since The Intercept launched, our staff has tried to put the best technology in place to protect our sources. Our website has been protected with HTTPS encryption from the beginning. All of our journalists publish their PGP keys on their staff profiles so that readers can send them encrypted email. And we’ve been running a SecureDrop server, an open source whistleblower submission system, to make it simpler and more secure for anonymous sources to get in touch with us.
But caution is still advised to those who want to communicate with us without exposing their real-world identities.
What not to do, what to worry about, and how to actually go about leaking to the press when you don’t want your real-world identity revealed. Good advice for the next Edward Snowden, who may be you.
“HOW TO LEAK TO THE INTERCEPT” [firstlook.org]