It looks like Kevin Poulsen is involved? Given that he helped Adrian Lamo turn Chelsea (Bradley) Manning over to the feds for passing info to WikiLeaks, I'm not so sure how his involvement in StrongBox...
Fair play to them for providing the service and here's hoping it leads to further exposure of corruption and wrongdoing.
The next step, however, is getting people to actually act on the information that comes out which is appearing to be an absolute goliath of a challenge.
SecureDrop is now kind of famous for being a secure way to exchange information between sources and journalists; we can all applaud its efforts for lowering the bar of high-risk investigation journalism.
Does anyone know whethe SecureDrop has ever been successfully used by journalists, and if there are any feedback about it ?
That reads like an April Fool's joke, but I followed the link to Github, and this has been acknowledged (and fixed) as a "security-high vulnerability":
What's the difference between StrongBox and SecureDrop? Does StrongBox use the latest version of SecureDrop? Is it a custom version? Or just a different brand name?
StrongBox is the New Yorker's implementation of the SecureDrop software. Strongbox was developed by Aaron Swartz, Kevin Poulsen and the New Yorker and then later open-sourced as SecureDrop.
Here's an article from the launch in 2013. (I'm not sure why this is just making it on to HN now.)
The title (currently "The New Yorker protects your anonymity using Tor") is fairly misleading. The New Yorker is not protecting their reader's anonymity with tor (or at least the page does not provide any claims to that effect). The linked page describes their use of SecureDrop[0], which is only accessable via tor, for folks submitting tips, leaks, and another sensitive information.
http://www.salon.com/2010/12/27/wired_5/