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Natanael@infosec.pub to Cryptography @ Infosec.pub@infosec.pubEnglish ·
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The Guardian launches Secure Messaging, a world-first from a media organisation, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge - Cover traffic to obscure whistleblowing

www.theguardian.com

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The Guardian launches Secure Messaging, a world-first from a media organisation, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge - Cover traffic to obscure whistleblowing

www.theguardian.com

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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.

Context: https://bsky.app/profile/martin.kleppmann.com/post/3lr6ex2glkc2h

This system is baked into the Guardian’s news app that millions of people have installed. Every regular user of the app generates cover traffic, and an attacker monitoring the network cannot distinguish someone using the secure messaging feature from a regular user.

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https://github.com/guardian/coverdrop

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    I haven’t read the white paper yet, but the Guardian app is full of trackers. Would this be a safer option than Signal?

    I like the idea, I’m not sure of the implementation.

    Here’s the Exodus Report on their app

    https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.guardian/latest/#trackers

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      It’s a dedicated feature for whistleblowing. If you have the contact details for a journalist in Signal already that works fine too.

      Different threat models.

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        Do you know if there is there an android version of this? Their link points to the Apple store.

        https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-guardian-live-world-news/id409128287?mt=8

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          It’s at the bottom of the article

          https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.guardian

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            Thanks, somehow I missed it

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