It’s not just Tor. It’s also “please use Signal instead of unencrypted email” that wasn’t an easy sell. Part of Wikileaks work was not just receiving documents but coordinating with journalists who write stories about those documents. Partly, documents that resulted in people like Andy Müller Maguhn getting a hardware bug on his cell phone.
As far as I know, the New York Times still runs on Slack instead of using a solution that provides end-to-end encrypion.
Another illustrative episode was the Guardian journalists who famously published the password to decrypt the Wikileaks insurance file that contained the clear names of the carefully redacted diplomatic cables and documents about the wars.
Teaching someone to use PGP is also something you can do with an average teenager. It’s not that complicated. It’s just awkward enough to use that it’s very hard to get the people who share important information to do so.
It’s not just Tor. It’s also “please use Signal instead of unencrypted email” that wasn’t an easy sell. Part of Wikileaks work was not just receiving documents but coordinating with journalists who write stories about those documents. Partly, documents that resulted in people like Andy Müller Maguhn getting a hardware bug on his cell phone.
As far as I know, the New York Times still runs on Slack instead of using a solution that provides end-to-end encrypion.
Another illustrative episode was the Guardian journalists who famously published the password to decrypt the Wikileaks insurance file that contained the clear names of the carefully redacted diplomatic cables and documents about the wars.
Teaching someone to use PGP is also something you can do with an average teenager. It’s not that complicated. It’s just awkward enough to use that it’s very hard to get the people who share important information to do so.