SecureDrop is an open-source software platform for secure communication between journalists and sources (whistleblowers). It was originally designed and developed by Aaron Swartz and Kevin Poulsen under the name DeadDrop. James Dolan also co-created the software.
On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT. Federal prosecutors later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.
He died by suicide while under federal indictment for his alleged computer crimes. Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would have served six months in federal prison. Two days after the prosecution rejected a counter-offer by Swartz, he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment, where he had hanged himself.
[AARON SWARTZ IS A HERO, AND SO IS JPB]
After Aaron Swartz's death, the first instance of the platform was launched under the name Strongbox by staff at The New Yorker on 15 May 2013. The Freedom of the Press Foundation took over development of DeadDrop under the name SecureDrop, and has since assisted with its installation at several news organizations, including ProPublica, The Guardian, The Intercept, and The Washington Post.
[ALL OF THESE MEDIA OUTLETS ARE ALIGNED WITH THE DEEPSTATE]
Conclusion:
People like Aaron Swartz and John Perry Barlow (and the forces of Internet freedom they embody) represent an existential threat to “the cabal”.
Similarly, electronic methods that support whistleblowers anonymously sharing information relating to the illegal activity of the deep state represents an existential threat to these bad actors.
Snowden was CIA. Once a clown, always a clown. Snowden was a LIMITED HANGOUT. The information he disclosed – incredible as it was – did little to change the status quo. It was a self-inflicted wound – and one designed to weaken the capabilities of the NSA. Most of the Snowden drop remains unpublished – sat on by Greenwald and his cronies. How was Snowden allowed to fly given he was already (allegedly) at the top of the "most wanted" list?
ALL of the organisations supporting SecureDrop are cabal-aligned, including The Guardian. As others have said, SecureDrop is a honeypot – if you can’t stop what’s happening, co-opt it.