October 2017 Podcast: Freedom of the Press Foundation Executive Director Trevor Timm talks digital security for student journalists

Summary: <img class="media-embed" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/snwceomedia/spl/760bd76d-08e9-4651-865d-cde612237b81.sized-1000x1000.jpg"> <p>We speak with Trevor Timm, a co-founder and the executive director of the <a href="https://freedom.press/about/"><ins>Freedom of the Press Foundation</ins></a>, a nonprofit which works to protect journalists and their sources by offering free, open source digital security tools.</p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/03/10/harvard-university-administrators-secretly-searched-deans-email-accounts-hunting-for-media-leak/tHyFUYh2FNAaG2w9wzcrLL/story.html"><ins>Further reading on the incident where Harvard searched through student deans' email accounts to find the source of a leak to the press</ins></a> (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/education/harvard-dean-in-e-mail-controversy-to-step-down.html"><ins>and update</ins></a>)</li> <li>SPLC coverage an incident illustrating the dangers of relying on a school server: <a href="http://www.splc.org/article/2015/11/matador-website-archives"><ins>"Embattled high school newspaper loses a year's worth of archived stories after school officials shut down website"</ins></a> </li> <li><a href="https://securedrop.org/"><ins>SecureDrop website</ins></a></li> <li><a href="https://signal.org/"><ins>Signal website</ins></a></li> <li><a href="https://securethe.news/"><ins>Secure The News website</ins></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.splc.org/article/2013/11/student-journalists-work-around-internet-filters-to-reach-audiences"><ins>Prior SPLC coverage of internet filters</ins></a></li> </ul> <p>Got an idea for who next month's guest should be? Send it to <a href="mailto:sbreslow@splc.org"><ins>sbreslow@splc.org</ins></a>.</p>