The Guardian launches Secure Messaging, a world-first from a media organisation, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge
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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.
  • MouldyCat@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The tech behind the tool conceals the fact that messaging is taking place at all. It makes the communication indistinguishable from data sent to and from the app by our millions of regular users.

    That is very clever.

    So, by using the Guardian app, readers are effectively providing ‘cover’ and helping us to protect sources.

    And of course they take the opportunity to push their app! I generally hate apps, especially for things like newspapers. This is the first reason I’ve seen that might make me install one.