Hush Line is a free & open-source whistleblower platform that provides secure, anonymous tip lines with no self-hosting, maintenance, or technical overhead. Sign up for a free account at https://tips.hushline.app/register
- ⭐️ Verified accounts
- 🙋 Opt-in user directory
- 👁️ OCR Vision Assistant
- 🧅 Tor Onion Service
- 🔑 Proton Mail key import
- 🔒 End-to-end encryption
- ✅ Self-authenticating URLs
- 📤 Riseup.net email delivery
- 💌 Mailvelope integration for in-app decryption
- 🥸 Aliases
- ⏱️ TOTP-based two-factor authentication
- 🎨 Custom branding
- 🪧 Custom onboarding & whistleblower guidance
- 🏷️ Message statuses
- 🧠 Automated message replies based on status
- 💬 Unique reply status URL for submitters
- 🤖 Local, Private CAPTCHA
“After using their platform for the past few weeks, I can comfortably write that Hush Line accomplishes its mission astoundingly well. Not only is customer support excellent for enterprise users, but its integration with PGP encrypted email makes it a lifesaver for a Thunderbird user like me. The ability to receive encrypted notifications via email is honestly an underrated feature.”
https://www.privacyguides.org/posts/2026/01/09/hush-line-review-an-accessible-whistleblowing-platform-for-journalists-and-lawyers-alike/
https://web.archive.org/web/20260110024015/https://www.privacyguides.org/posts/2026/01/09/hush-line-review-an-accessible-whistleblowing-platform-for-journalists-and-lawyers-alike/
“Investing in technology that protects privacy—such as Hush Line and Signal—is also important in sharing information that is anonymous, and can't be subpoenaed.”
https://www.newsweek.com/protecting-free-speech-about-more-letting-content-run-wild-opinion-2012746
https://web.archive.org/web/20250111062609/https://www.newsweek.com/protecting-free-speech-about-more-letting-content-run-wild-opinion-2012746
"Psst’s safe is based on Hush Line, a tool designed by the nonprofit Science & Design, Inc., as a simpler way for sources to reach out to journalists and lawyers. It’s a one-way conversation system, essentially functioning as a tip-line. Micah Lee, an engineer on Hush Line, says that the tool fills a gap in the market for an encrypted yet accessible central clearinghouse for sensitive information."
https://time.com/7208911/psst-whistleblower-collective/
https://web.archive.org/web/20250122105330/https://time.com/7208911/psst-whistleblower-collective/
“New systems in development, such as Hush Line, developed by entrepreneur Glenn Sorrentino, are the brave new frontier in reporting. Hush Line is a software application that offers a more secure ability to report anonymously.”
https://zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-151-playing-the-whistleblower
"I'm working with a a non-profit software company called Science and Design that's worked on a number of really interesting products that are kind of nerdy and more on the journalism space, but they're working on something called Hush Line, which is a one-way encrypted anonymizing platform so that whistleblowers can reach out to individual journalists while remaining anonymous... it provides a non-technical person a way and a path and information, should they find themselves in a whistleblowing position, to not mitigate the danger because it's never not going to be dangerous, but prepare them for the process and give them an easy-to-use modern tool to responsibly disclose information to trustworthy journalists..."
Around the Bend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO6q_t0wGGA&t=38m17s
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