A tribute to James Dolan, co-creator of SecureDrop

[Posted January 10, 2018 by ris]

Freedom of the Press Foundation has a tribute to James Dolan, who died over the holidays at the age of 36. James worked with Aaron Swartz and journalist Kevin Poulsen to build the original prototype of SecureDrop, an open-source whistleblower submission system. "He was our first full-time employee at Freedom of the Press Foundation, and quickly set out to teach other developers, contributors, and anyone interested in how the system worked. He poured his heart and soul into the work, traveling to newsrooms around North America to teach IT staffs and journalists in person how to install and use SecureDrop. He completely reworked the installation process, he pushed us to get independent security audits of the system, and he helped us hire the initial team that would take over SecureDrop once he was gone." LWN covered a LibrePlanet talk on SecureDrop back in March 2017. (Thanks to Paul Wise)