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Hush Line Admin

@admin

⚙️ Admin

⭐️ Verified

Message for account verification, to report technical problems, spam, and abusive accounts, or to give feedback!

AJ Vicens

@ajvicens

⭐️ Verified

AJ covers cybercrime, hacktivism and state-aligned threats for CyberScoop. Signal: ajvicens.57

Amber Scorah, Psst.org

@amber

⭐️ Verified

Co-founder at Psst.org, a nonprofit helping whistleblowers and everyday people bring forward information in the public interest, safely and collectively.

Benjamin Calitri

@bencalitri

⭐️ Verified

Ben is an Associate at Kohn, Kohn, & Colapinto, assisting clients with whistleblower reward programs. If you are looking for representation, please provide contact info or submit an Intake form on the KKC website.

Cade Diehm

@shibco

⭐️ Verified

Cade is the founder of New Design Congress.

CanGlobal Media

@canglobalmedia_tipbox

⭐️ Verified

CanGlobal Media is a Canadian technology and journalism non-profit empowering consumers of all kinds through knowledge, innovation, and research.

Chelsey Glasson

@cglasson

⭐️ Verified

Chelsey is a researcher, writer and future attorney. She authored the book Black Box: A Pregnancy Discrimination Memoir, documenting her experiences and learnings from suing Google for pregnancy discrimination and sexual harassment.

Christian Vasquez

@chrismvasq

⭐️ Verified

Journalist writing about infrastructure and resilience with a focus on cybersecurity. current bylines @ cyberscoop.com

Cybersecurity for the Muckrakers

@mucksec

⭐️ Verified

mucksec.org focuses on the security events affecting journalists and the organizations that support their work. This communications channel should be used for initial contact requests, assistance, and information regarding potential risks.

Emma Best

@mx_yzptlk

⭐️ Verified

Emma Best is an investigative journalist, transparency advocate, former analyst, and cofounder of Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets). She has also filed thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests and published hundreds of articles.

Erika Cheung

@Ririkamc2

⭐️ Verified

Erika Cheung is the executive director of Ethics in Entrepreneurship. She serves on the board of Whistleblowers for America and is an advisor for the Signals Network. Erika was a key whistleblower in the Theranos scandal.

Gazzetta

@gazzetta

⭐️ Verified

We want to live in a world where civic media ventures thrive, even in the most challenging environments. That’s why we work on relevance and anti-autocratic resilience.

Glenn Sorrentino

@glenn

⭐️ Verified

Glenn is the Executive Director at Science & Design, Inc. and serves on the Board of Advisors to Distributed Denial of Secrets. His experience includes F500s, startups, agencies, and the civic space. Glenn is a USMC vet and military whistleblower.

Haagsch Recherchebureau

@haagschrecherchebureau

⭐️ Verified

Haagsch Recherchebureau is located in the Dutch political capital. With a team of 12 detectives and 5 meeting locations across the Netherlands, we help individuals, entrepreneurs, governments and corporates with fraud prevention and investigation.

Heather Wallander

@heatherwallander

⭐️ Verified

A retired career-ladder enthusiast turned activist and founder who refuses to give up my hope that a better workplace is possible.

Hush Line for Business

@hushline-business

⭐️ Verified

Message for business inquiries, single-tenant hosting, subscriptions, Personal Server sales, or other product questions.

Isabela Fernandes

@isabela

⭐️ Verified

Isabela Fernandes has been serving as the Executive Director of the Tor Project since November 2018 and has contributed to the FOSS community and other digital and social movements for the democratization of information since the late 1990s.

Jeremy Moore

@jeremy

⭐️ Verified

Jeremy is a software developer and contributor to Hush Line.

Jonah Aragon

@jonah

⭐️ Verified

Jonah is the president of Triplebit, a US-based nonprofit transit ISP that operates public access privacy-related infrastructure. He also serves as the part-time Project Director of Privacy Guides.

Joshua Byrd

@phocks

⭐️ Verified

An editorial developer at ABC News.

Josh Universe

@josh

⭐️ Verified

Founder - International Biohacking Community, Astralife. CEO - Astrochain. Owner of Science.Social & Moderators.social social media networks. This is an anonymous tip-line for whistleblowers, reports, security, etc. All messages are encrypted.

Ken Nickerson

@kcnickerson

⭐️ Verified

@kcnickerson - Maker, Coder, Hacker, MaveriX, XanaduAI, SealedCH, HorizonIO, CDL, i6, xdTaz, xOmers, xFlixel, xRthm, xKobo, xOpenCola, xMicrosoft, xRogers, xBanks, xXs

Knowles International

@Knowles-International

⭐️ Verified

www.knowlesinternational.com The law firm has a strong belief in seeing that the rule of law is followed and peoples’ rights are protected from abuses by powerful and influential interests, multinational corporations, or government entities.

Margie Ratliff

@IsaThing

⭐️ Verified

Margie Ratliff is the Founder of the Documentary Participants’ Empowerment Alliance (DPEA), which brings vital resources to documentary participants. She is a producer/participant in the film Subject and a participant in the film The Staircase.

Mary Inman

@MaryInman

⭐️ Verified

Mary is a partner at Whistleblower Partners LLP, a law firm specializing in representing whistleblowers reporting fraud and misconduct to U.S. agencies like the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, IRS, FinCEN and DOT/NHTSA who reward them for that information.

Micah Lee

@micahflee

⭐️ Verified

Micah is an investigative journalist, computer security engineer, and an open-source software developer. He's the author of Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked data, and runs Semiphemeral.

Michael Downey

@downey

⭐️ Verified

Open Source @ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Nathan Freitas aka n8fr8

@n8fr8

⭐️ Verified

Nathan is the founder and director of Guardian Project, an award-winning, open-source, mobile security collaborative with millions of users and beneficiaries worldwide.

New Design Congress Research

@ndc-research

⭐️ Verified

New Design Congress. An independent research group confronting the gap between what is said to be happening and what is actually happening in digitised societies. https://newdesigncongress.org/en/methodology/

Nicola Fabiano

@nicfab

⭐️ Verified

Italian lawyer, adjunct professor, and former San Marino Data Protection Authority President. IT professional and system admin, certified as an ICT Security Manager, mainly focused on data protection, privacy, and cybersecurity laws.

NW Lierly @ ackme.net

@nwlierly

⭐️ Verified

NW Lierly has worked in system administration and computer security for twenty plus years. Reach out for help with IT, incident response, or /dev/random

Rebecca Petras

@rpetras

⭐️ Verified

Rebecca Petras is co-founder of Psst… Psst is a safe, smart new way for people to share information in the public interest. We make speaking out a collective, more supported (and often world-changing) act.

Science & Design, Inc.

@scidsg

⭐️ Verified

Science & Design, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit product development organization that builds software that advances free speech and free access to information online. Use this form to report ethical or legal concerns relating to our organization.

Sooraj Sathyanarayanan

@ianonymous3000

⭐️ Verified

Security & Privacy Researcher

Stefanie Daehler

@stef

⭐️ Verified

Stefanie is an educator and librarian and serves on the Board of Directors for Science & Design, Inc. as Secretary & Treasurer.

Taller

@Taller

⭐️ Verified

Taller Technologies is committed to safeguarding the privacy of all Taller staff. Please feel free to share any questions or concerns about illegal or unsafe workplace situations, and they will be taken care of with utmost care and security.

Theo Leggett

@TheoLeggett

⭐️ Verified

Theo is a BBC journalist covering business, industry and finance.

Unredacted Inc

@unredacted

⭐️ Verified

Unredacted is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides free and open services that help people evade censorship and protect their right to privacy. Send us encrypted and anonymous messages via Hush Line, we'd love to hear from you.

Whistleblowers of America

@Whistleblowers-of-America

⭐️ Verified

WoA is a nonprofit organization assisting whistleblowers who have suffered retaliation after having identified harm to individuals or the public. Our goal is to help whistleblowers with mental health though peer support.

Yael Grauer

@yaelwrites

⭐️ Verified

Yael Grauer is an investigative tech reporter covering privacy and security, digital freedom, hacking, and mass surveillance. She currently works at Consumer Reports managing Security Planner, an easy-to-use digital security guide. yaelwrites.com

Yumi Batgerel

@yumi

⭐️ Verified

3D Character Artist

Hush Line Admin

@admin

⚙️ Admin

⭐️ Verified

Message for account verification, to report technical problems, spam, and abusive accounts, or to give feedback!

AJ Vicens

@ajvicens

⭐️ Verified

AJ covers cybercrime, hacktivism and state-aligned threats for CyberScoop. Signal: ajvicens.57

Amber Scorah, Psst.org

@amber

⭐️ Verified

Co-founder at Psst.org, a nonprofit helping whistleblowers and everyday people bring forward information in the public interest, safely and collectively.

Art Vandelay

@vandelay

Art Vandelay is an award-winning investigative reporter covering cybersecurity, business, and artificial intelligence, with bylines on Wikinews, Reddit, and Medium. Use this form to send confidential tips and disclosures on my current beats.

Benjamin Calitri

@bencalitri

⭐️ Verified

Ben is an Associate at Kohn, Kohn, & Colapinto, assisting clients with whistleblower reward programs. If you are looking for representation, please provide contact info or submit an Intake form on the KKC website.

Cade Diehm

@shibco

⭐️ Verified

Cade is the founder of New Design Congress.

CanGlobal Media

@canglobalmedia_tipbox

⭐️ Verified

CanGlobal Media is a Canadian technology and journalism non-profit empowering consumers of all kinds through knowledge, innovation, and research.

Chelsey Glasson

@cglasson

⭐️ Verified

Chelsey is a researcher, writer and future attorney. She authored the book Black Box: A Pregnancy Discrimination Memoir, documenting her experiences and learnings from suing Google for pregnancy discrimination and sexual harassment.

Christian Vasquez

@chrismvasq

⭐️ Verified

Journalist writing about infrastructure and resilience with a focus on cybersecurity. current bylines @ cyberscoop.com

CRANE lab

@cranelab

Research Center : Heterotopia, Acousmatic Music, Art Ethics and Regeneration

Cybersecurity for the Muckrakers

@mucksec

⭐️ Verified

mucksec.org focuses on the security events affecting journalists and the organizations that support their work. This communications channel should be used for initial contact requests, assistance, and information regarding potential risks.

Emma Best

@mx_yzptlk

⭐️ Verified

Emma Best is an investigative journalist, transparency advocate, former analyst, and cofounder of Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets). She has also filed thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests and published hundreds of articles.

Erika Cheung

@Ririkamc2

⭐️ Verified

Erika Cheung is the executive director of Ethics in Entrepreneurship. She serves on the board of Whistleblowers for America and is an advisor for the Signals Network. Erika was a key whistleblower in the Theranos scandal.

Gazzetta

@gazzetta

⭐️ Verified

We want to live in a world where civic media ventures thrive, even in the most challenging environments. That’s why we work on relevance and anti-autocratic resilience.

Glenn Sorrentino

@glenn

⭐️ Verified

Glenn is the Executive Director at Science & Design, Inc. and serves on the Board of Advisors to Distributed Denial of Secrets. His experience includes F500s, startups, agencies, and the civic space. Glenn is a USMC vet and military whistleblower.

Haagsch Recherchebureau

@haagschrecherchebureau

⭐️ Verified

Haagsch Recherchebureau is located in the Dutch political capital. With a team of 12 detectives and 5 meeting locations across the Netherlands, we help individuals, entrepreneurs, governments and corporates with fraud prevention and investigation.

Heather Wallander

@heatherwallander

⭐️ Verified

A retired career-ladder enthusiast turned activist and founder who refuses to give up my hope that a better workplace is possible.

Hush Line for Business

@hushline-business

⭐️ Verified

Message for business inquiries, single-tenant hosting, subscriptions, Personal Server sales, or other product questions.

Isabela Fernandes

@isabela

⭐️ Verified

Isabela Fernandes has been serving as the Executive Director of the Tor Project since November 2018 and has contributed to the FOSS community and other digital and social movements for the democratization of information since the late 1990s.

Jean VOGUET Composer

@jeanvoguet

Acousmatic Geophonies & Heterotopias - Director, CRANE lab research center

Jeremy Moore

@jeremy

⭐️ Verified

Jeremy is a software developer and contributor to Hush Line.

Jonah Aragon

@jonah

⭐️ Verified

Jonah is the president of Triplebit, a US-based nonprofit transit ISP that operates public access privacy-related infrastructure. He also serves as the part-time Project Director of Privacy Guides.

Joshua Byrd

@phocks

⭐️ Verified

An editorial developer at ABC News.

Josh Universe

@josh

⭐️ Verified

Founder - International Biohacking Community, Astralife. CEO - Astrochain. Owner of Science.Social & Moderators.social social media networks. This is an anonymous tip-line for whistleblowers, reports, security, etc. All messages are encrypted.

Ken Nickerson

@kcnickerson

⭐️ Verified

@kcnickerson - Maker, Coder, Hacker, MaveriX, XanaduAI, SealedCH, HorizonIO, CDL, i6, xdTaz, xOmers, xFlixel, xRthm, xKobo, xOpenCola, xMicrosoft, xRogers, xBanks, xXs

Knowles International

@Knowles-International

⭐️ Verified

www.knowlesinternational.com The law firm has a strong belief in seeing that the rule of law is followed and peoples’ rights are protected from abuses by powerful and influential interests, multinational corporations, or government entities.

Margie Ratliff

@IsaThing

⭐️ Verified

Margie Ratliff is the Founder of the Documentary Participants’ Empowerment Alliance (DPEA), which brings vital resources to documentary participants. She is a producer/participant in the film Subject and a participant in the film The Staircase.

Mary Inman

@MaryInman

⭐️ Verified

Mary is a partner at Whistleblower Partners LLP, a law firm specializing in representing whistleblowers reporting fraud and misconduct to U.S. agencies like the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, IRS, FinCEN and DOT/NHTSA who reward them for that information.

Micah Lee

@micahflee

⭐️ Verified

Micah is an investigative journalist, computer security engineer, and an open-source software developer. He's the author of Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked data, and runs Semiphemeral.

Michael Downey

@downey

⭐️ Verified

Open Source @ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Nathan Freitas aka n8fr8

@n8fr8

⭐️ Verified

Nathan is the founder and director of Guardian Project, an award-winning, open-source, mobile security collaborative with millions of users and beneficiaries worldwide.

New Design Congress Research

@ndc-research

⭐️ Verified

New Design Congress. An independent research group confronting the gap between what is said to be happening and what is actually happening in digitised societies. https://newdesigncongress.org/en/methodology/

Nicola Fabiano

@nicfab

⭐️ Verified

Italian lawyer, adjunct professor, and former San Marino Data Protection Authority President. IT professional and system admin, certified as an ICT Security Manager, mainly focused on data protection, privacy, and cybersecurity laws.

NW Lierly @ ackme.net

@nwlierly

⭐️ Verified

NW Lierly has worked in system administration and computer security for twenty plus years. Reach out for help with IT, incident response, or /dev/random

Rebecca Petras

@rpetras

⭐️ Verified

Rebecca Petras is co-founder of Psst… Psst is a safe, smart new way for people to share information in the public interest. We make speaking out a collective, more supported (and often world-changing) act.

réseau inDREAM network

@indream

International Network for the Diffusion of Recorded Electronic & Acousmatic Multichannel Music

Science & Design, Inc.

@scidsg

⭐️ Verified

Science & Design, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit product development organization that builds software that advances free speech and free access to information online. Use this form to report ethical or legal concerns relating to our organization.

Sooraj Sathyanarayanan

@ianonymous3000

⭐️ Verified

Security & Privacy Researcher

Stefanie Daehler

@stef

⭐️ Verified

Stefanie is an educator and librarian and serves on the Board of Directors for Science & Design, Inc. as Secretary & Treasurer.

Taller

@Taller

⭐️ Verified

Taller Technologies is committed to safeguarding the privacy of all Taller staff. Please feel free to share any questions or concerns about illegal or unsafe workplace situations, and they will be taken care of with utmost care and security.

Theo Leggett

@TheoLeggett

⭐️ Verified

Theo is a BBC journalist covering business, industry and finance.

Unredacted Inc

@unredacted

⭐️ Verified

Unredacted is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides free and open services that help people evade censorship and protect their right to privacy. Send us encrypted and anonymous messages via Hush Line, we'd love to hear from you.

Whistleblowers of America

@Whistleblowers-of-America

⭐️ Verified

WoA is a nonprofit organization assisting whistleblowers who have suffered retaliation after having identified harm to individuals or the public. Our goal is to help whistleblowers with mental health though peer support.

Yael Grauer

@yaelwrites

⭐️ Verified

Yael Grauer is an investigative tech reporter covering privacy and security, digital freedom, hacking, and mass surveillance. She currently works at Consumer Reports managing Security Planner, an easy-to-use digital security guide. yaelwrites.com

Yumi Batgerel

@yumi

⭐️ Verified

3D Character Artist