Support a Little-Known Privacy Tool Critical to Journalists and Others

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Edward Snowden famously first contacted Laura Poitras using GPG email encryption, which eventually led to her, Glenn Greenwald, and Barton Gellman breaking the biggest story in decades. However, another tool has been even more critical to all of the main NSA journalists, and many people outside the digital security community have never heard of it: Tails, a ground-breaking operating system that forces privacy best-practices by default.

With assurances from the Tails developers and the main players in the NSA revelations, we feel it's safe to tell this story for the first time, and we hope this vital encryption and anonymity project can finally get the credit—and much needed support—it deserves. You can donate to the Tails project by going here.

We asked the three original NSA journalists about how important Tails was to their work. Here's what they had to say . . . .

Tails has been developed so far by a small number of coders working in their spare time on a very small budget. More info and an opportunity to pitch in at https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2014/04/help-support-little-known-privacy-tool-has-been-critical-journalists-reporting-nsa .

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1. A big K&R. nt