Thursday, December 15, 2016

psst - got a tip ? submit one anonymously to NYT or elsewhere

https://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2016/news-tips/

Got a confidential news tip?

Do you have the next big story? Want to share it with The New York Times? We offer several ways to get in touch with and provide materials to our journalists. No communication system is completely secure, but these tools can help protect your anonymity. We’ve outlined each below, but please review any app’s terms and instructions as well. Please do not send feedback, story ideas, pitches or press releases through these channels. For more general correspondence visit our contact page.

WhatsApp
Signal
Email
Postal Mail
SecureDrop

What Makes a Good Tip?

A strong news tip will have several components. Documentation or evidence is essential. Speculating or having a hunch does not rise to the level of a tip. A good news tip should articulate a clear and understandable issue or problem with real-world consequences. Be specific. Finally, a news tip should be newsworthy. While we agree it is unfair that your neighbor is stealing cable, we would not write a story about it.

Examples of good tips include:

Here is evidence that this government representative is breaking the law.

Here is proof that this company is conducting itself unethically.

We will be reviewing messages regularly, but cannot promise each will receive an individual response. Thank you for taking the time to reach out to us.

WhatsApp


WhatsApp is a free messaging app owned by Facebook that allows full end-to-end encryption for its service. Only the sender and recipient can read messages, photos, videos, voice messages, documents and calls. Though you can limit some account information shared to Facebook, WhatsApp still keeps records of the phone numbers involved in the exchange and the users’ metadata, including timestamps on messages.
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Signal


The free and open source messaging app offers end-to-end encryption to send messages, photos, video and calls. Unlike WhatsApp, Signal does not support sending documents. Signal retains only your phone number, when you first registered with the service and when you were last active. No metadata surrounding communications is retained. The app also allow messages to self-destruct, removing them from the recipient’s and sender’s phones (once it’s been seen) after a set amount of time.
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Email

You may send us encrypted or unencrypted emails. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption software that allows you to send encrypted emails and documents. Mailvelope is a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that makes it easy to use PGP. The extension will only encrypt the contents of the email you’re sending. Mailvelope will not encrypt metadata such as sender, recipient, subject or information about when the email was sent. This metadata will be available to your email provider.
Key: 44B6 6121 3CE6 66D6 5403 B4CC 44A3 475A E1AA A9EB
Email: [email protected]
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Postal Mail

Mail delivered through the postal service is another secure means of communication. We recommend that you use a public mailbox, not a post office.

Address:
Tips
The New York Times
620 8th Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10018


SecureDrop


This encrypted submission system set up by The Times uses the Tor anonymity software to protect your identity, location and the information you send us. We do not ask for or require any identifiable information, nor do we track or log information surrounding our communication.

We strongly recommend that tips be sent using a public Wi-Fi network, and that the computer you use is free of malware. If the computer is compromised, communications using SecureDrop may be compromised as well. The steps below outline best practices for use of SecureDrop, as well as the steps that we take to protect your privacy.

Details

Download and install the Tor browser from https://www.torproject.org. The Tor browser allows access to our SecureDrop page, which operates as a Tor “hidden service.”
Open the Tor browser and wait for the page that says a connection has been established, then copy and paste the following into the address bar: nytimes2tsqtnxek.onion
Follow the instructions to send us information. Users will be given a codename that can be used to log back in and check for responses from Times reporters.
For added security, consider using the Tails operating system instead of the Tor Browser.

Privacy Information

The SecureDrop servers are under the physical control of The New York Times.

The information you send us is stored on our servers in an encrypted format. Times reporters will only decrypt and read your submission on a computer that has never been, and never will be, connected to the Internet.

If you wish to log back in to check for responses from The Times, we recommend that you delete each message as soon as you have read it. The message will then also be securely deleted from our servers.

SecureDrop is regularly audited by independent security experts. Like all software, it could have security bugs that are exploitable. Ultimately, you use the service at your own risk.
By submitting to us, you are promising that the content is original, does not plagiarize from anyone or infringe a copyright or trademark, does not violate anyone’s rights and is not libelous or otherwise unlawful or misleading. You are agreeing that we can use your submission in all manner and media of The New York Times and that we shall have the right to authorize third parties to do so. And you agree to our Terms of Service.

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