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New Yorker Launches ‘Strongbox’ for Anonymous Transmission of Files

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:12
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The New Yorker on Wednesday launched “Strongbox,” an online system for sources to send files and messages to the magazine’s journalists with “a reasonable amount of anonymity,” as Senior Editor Amy Davidson put it.
A source can use Strongbox to send information anonymously in the following way: First, they access the Tor network, which anonymizes users via a series of relays encrypting traffic at each step. Strongbox users then upload their files or messages and get a random code name. The files are encrypted and transmitted to a Condé Nast server separate from the rest of the company’s infrastructure Read more…More about New Yorker, Aaron Swartz, Business, and Media

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