The Guardian launches Secure Messaging, a world-first from a media organisation, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge
www.theguardian.com
Secure Messaging is a new innovation for confidential story-sharing and source protection, underpinning the Guardian’s commitment to investigative journalism. The Guardian has published the open source code for this important tech to enable adoption by other media organisations.
  • Armand1@lemmy.world
    16·
    7 days ago

    Ok, so it’s an encrypted, open source whistle-blowing feature in their app / system.

    The article is light on technical details but if it makes whistleblowing easier and safer than for example emailing their editors that’s probably a good thing.

    • PenguinTD@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      But like the ice tracker, wouldn’t download and use the app expose the potential user lists to surface if local authority can ask for such information?

      • Armand1@lemmy.world
        6·
        7 days ago

        I think they are bundling this into their regular app, so they’d have to put every guardian read on the list😅

        • Jade@programming.dev
          2·
          7 days ago

          Yep, that’s the point described in the linked paper - traffic goes via the same domains used for their app, and the messenger is embedded in their app