Secure Tips

If you have information that is in the public interest and sharing it could put you at risk, take a moment to protect yourself before you get in touch. This page explains the options, from least to most protective.

Before you contact us

• Use a personal device and network, not your employer's. Work laptops, phones and Wi-Fi can be monitored.
• Don't research us or this page from a work account or device.
• The more sensitive the material, the more it is worth using one of the encrypted channels below rather than ordinary email.

Encrypted email

For most tips, email tips@nepenthesjournal.com from an account that is not linked to your employer or your real name. Tell us how you would like us to reply and how much we may quote. Ordinary email is not anonymous — it can reveal your address and can be subpoenaed — so use it only when the material is not high-risk.

Signal

Signal provides end-to-end-encrypted messages and calls and lets you set messages to disappear. Because this is a demonstration site we do not keep a standing public Signal number; if you email tips@nepenthesjournal.com and ask, we will arrange a Signal contact and confirm the number through a second channel so you can be sure it is really us.

SecureDrop

SecureDrop lets sources submit documents anonymously over the Tor network, and is the right choice for large or highly sensitive disclosures. A live SecureDrop instance is published as an .onion address that you reach with the Tor Browser. We provision one on request rather than running it continuously for this testbed — ask over encrypted email and we will share the current address and step-by-step instructions.

Post

Anonymous physical mail, sent without a return address to the newsroom address on our contact page, remains one of the most reliable ways to share documents that cannot be traced back to you.

What we promise

We will never knowingly reveal the identity of a source who has asked for anonymity. We tell you what we can and cannot protect before you share anything, and we do not publish material that would identify you without discussing it with you first.

Last updated: June 15, 2026.