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Subject James Dolan, Co-Creator of SecureDrop, Dead at 36

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Original Message Took his own life. Created a way for journalists to move sensitive information and allowed whistleblowers the tools to leak information to society.

Wonder if he really took his own life......

It was with an extremely heavy heart that we recently learned our friend and former colleague James Dolan—one of the co-creators of SecureDrop and Freedom of the Press Foundation’s first full time employee—took his own life over the holidays. He was 36.

In 2012, James worked with Aaron Swartz and journalist Kevin Poulsen to build the original prototype of SecureDrop, the open source whistleblower submission system, which was then called DeadDrop. Poulsen described James’s role in the project’s creation in the New Yorker in 2013:

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