📰 Journalism & Tips

Protect your sources

Create anonymous tip lines. Sources submit documents, photos, and statements through ephemeral links. No metadata trail. No persistent storage. View once, then gone.

The problem

The way most organizations handle this today is a liability.

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Email metadata

Sources who email tips leave sender addresses, IP addresses, timestamps, and routing headers. Metadata that identifies them even if the content is vague.

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Messaging traces

Signal, WhatsApp, and SMS all leave traces on devices. Messages can be recovered forensically. Read receipts and typing indicators reveal interaction patterns.

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Persistent storage

Documents uploaded to shared drives remain indefinitely. Cloud storage providers can be subpoenaed. Deletion does not mean destruction.

How it works

A single secure channel from request to destruction.

1
Journalist

Generates a Secretary Link, publishes it as a tip line

2
Source

Clicks the link, submits documents, photos, or a written statement

3
Journalist

Views the submission once using the receipt

4
System

Submission permanently destroyed. No server-side copies remain.

Real-world scenarios

Concrete examples of Secretary Links in action.

Anonymous tip line

A newsroom publishes a Secretary Link on their website. Whistleblowers submit documents without creating an account or revealing their identity.

Source document drop

A journalist sends a link to a known source. The source uploads leaked documents that the journalist views once before the link self-destructs.

Photo evidence

A source at a protest submits photos and a written account of events. No camera roll syncing, no cloud backup, no metadata breadcrumbs.

Key capabilities

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Encrypted by default

Every submission is encrypted with its own unique key. Keys are separated from stored data. Add a passphrase for an additional layer only you and the source know.

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True destruction

Submissions are permanently destroyed after viewing. Not soft-deleted. Not archived. Purged from all storage.

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Custom domains

Run the tip line on your newsroom domain. Sources see a familiar URL, not a third-party service.

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No account required

Sources never create an account. No username, no email, no identity to subpoena.

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