Source Protection

(90 mins) 18:00 BST & 18:00 EST

In this workshop you will receive training in keeping your sources confidential. We’ll look into how to encrypt not just your communications with a source on both email and mobile, but also how to keep documents, data and other source material encrypted with tools like diskutility, bitlocker and VeraCrypt.

The session will also encompass cross-border work, giving advice and guidance on how to work with colleagues in other national contexts and cross borders yourself while keeping your devices and your data secure where possible, and setting up secondary, burner and travel devices where necessary.

In addition, the class will cover working with metadata and look at how to avoid inadvertently breaching confidentiality through leaking metadata or providing other information that could be used for jigsaw identification.