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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8880963" data-attributes="member: 11760">If you want to speak to a journalist anonymously and are worried that your employer will figure out it's you, some suggestions:1) Make a new Gmail account to communicate with the journalist. ONLY access it at the public library, not your home computer, not your phone and definitely not on your work computer.2) Do not send them images or PDFs that you did not create. Print those files out and scan them in (again, at the library). EDIT: Make sure to not take pictures that include anything other than the images you're trying to safely copy. What's in your background could be used to identify you or your location.3) If you do send files, make sure (research this part, for your particular devices and software) ALL settings related to your location are turned off. (EDIT: In fact, look up EXIF data and how to disable it on everything you're doing at this point.)4) If you do not know if you have potentially been given access to a unique version of a document or file intended to flush out leakers (each potential leaker being given a slightly different document, and then your employer will see which one appears in the press, and they then trace it back to you), don't share it, don't even discuss it. Just tell the journalist you can't discuss certain elements because you think some of what you have may be intended to out you to investigators.EDIT: 5) If you sign up for Signal to communicate with the journalist, it uses your phone number as your default ID, which potentially voids a lot of the security the app gives you. Before doing this -- and you probably don't need to, to be clear -- sign up for a Google Voice number with your new Google account and use that number to sign up for Signal.EDIT: 6) Don't forward work emails. Unless you are more technically savvy than average, it's easy to put invisible tracking one-pixel images into emails that can again be used to identify leakers. Print out and scan in those emails instead.There are still ways someone could find you -- there are post-Oklahoma City microdots on print-outs, for instance -- but unless you are being investigated by the feds, it's not likely they will have the resources to do so.</blockquote>

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