Since WikiLeaks’ submission system went offline in late 2010, journalists and hacktivists have struggled to replicate its dropbox for anonymous leaks. Meanwhile, the Obama administration has prosecuted more leakers under the Espionage Act than all other presidencies combined and the Justice Department has spied on the Associated Press to out its sources, as the media gropes for tools to counteract that surveillance.
The New Yorker today launched ‘Strongbox,’ a whistleblower submission system designed to allow anonymous leakers to digitally transmit important information to journalists.
Strongbox makes use of the anonymizing Tor network.