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James Dolan, Co-Creator of SecureDrop, Dead At 36 (gizmodo.com)
The Freedom of the Press Foundation is reporting that James Dolan, former Marine and co-creator of the whistleblower submission system SecureDrop alongside Aaron Swartz and Wired editor Kevin Poulsen, has died at age 36. He reportedly took his own life. Gizmodo reports: First deployed as StrongBox with The New Yorker, organizations such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Associated Press, and Gizmodo Media Group have all come to rely on SecureDrop -- which allows highly secure communication between journalists and sources in possession of sensitive information or documents. As an industry tool, it has become invaluable for reporters. Dolan joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation to maintain SecureDrop after co-creator Aaron Swartz took his life in 2013 at age 26, as pressure mounted in a federal investigation against him that many felt was overzealous. Memorial services have not yet been announced, and presently the circumstances of Dolan's death are not known.
People who annoy governments tend to kill themselves, isn't that strange?
Circumcision is child abuse.
You know we're all thinking it.
Yeah I might believe that if the other creator of SecureDrop had not also "taken his own life".
Truly the Deep State protects its own. Good luck to the next person to take over maintenance! Maybe you'll make seven years if you only drink water you purify yourself from random streams.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I'm starting to think that a lot of this feels like government sanctioned murder against individuals trying to help society by revealing the truth of matters.
This whole thing stinks.
I don't always wear a tinfoil hat, but when I do...
Smart people are usually more prone to depression that dumb ones.
He did himself in the quickest and most painless way possible with three gunshot wounds to the back.
I don't know what happened in real life, but these things always look suspicious.
Why assume something logical when we can blame it on a government conspiracy plot?
Why assume something logical when we can blame it on a government conspiracy plot?
Exactly! Logic was invented by circumcising Reptilians to keep us confused about disreality. The only answer is to misinterpret the evidence.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke