SecureDrop

For 12 years, FPF has been a leading organization in the United States that advocates for journalists’ rights and the only major U.S. non-profit that has a team of engineers and digital security trainers specifically focused on building tools for the journalism community and teaching them how to protect their sources online. Through a combination of advocacy, training and technology, we vigorously protect the rights of journalists and whistleblowers from government overreach and alert the public to escalating press freedom threats.

Our flagship project, SecureDrop, is an open-source whistleblower submission system that enables journalists to securely communicate with sources. Currently used at over 60 major news outlets worldwide, such as The New York Times, CNN, BBC, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and many more, SecureDrop ensures the anonymity and safety of whistleblowers by utilizing the Tor network and compartmentalized security measures. The project is continuously developed by FPF’s engineering team to improve usability, accessibility, and security.

By advancing privacy, security, and digital rights, our work strengthens independent journalism, fosters technological resilience, and promotes free expression in the face of increasing threats to press freedom. Supporting SecureDrop means directly contributing to the digital privacy landscape – ensuring that whistleblowers and journalists have a secure, anonymous channel to communicate, especially as government interference and surveillance intensify. We appreciate the FLOSS Fund’s consideration of our proposal in support of this critical tool.

In 2025 FPF aims to achieve feature completeness for the SecureDrop Workstation based on Qubes OS to act as a full substitute for the classic Journalist Interface. We will also announce the deprecation timeline for the classic Journalist Interface, and finalize requirements for the new SecureDrop Server based on the next-generation SecureDrop Protocol.