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It surprised me to read that reporters for the Wall Street Journal communicate with their sources via email. That’s careless.
by nier 4y ago
It surprised me to read that reporters for the Wall Street Journal communicate with their sources via email. That’s careless.
- bredren 4y agoReporters don’t always get to pick and enforce the medium of communication with sources.
- 1letterunixname 4y agosecuredrop, pastebin GPG communiques from coffee shop WiFi + VPN, i2p, or something with a buffer between them and their sources. Perhaps include journalism security hygiene similar to foreign intelligence HUMINT and compartmentalization. Journalists have to realize they don't know their adversaries and should "fail-safe" to assume they include state actors and megacorps with unlimited resources. To not do so is to recklessly underestimate the threat.
- iinnPP 4y agoOr just join the dark side as many have.
- the_optimist 4y agoMaybe not careless, but not a good convention. Incidentally, securedrop is set up only to communicate with specific journalistic organizations. I'd be very hesitant to send information to a journalistic org without an understanding of who's involved. In no way have the vast majority of journalistic orgs established the trust necessary to receive leaks: https://securedrop.org/directory/ https://securedrop.org/directory/