We just received the fantastic news that our demo paper, “Dispatch: Making the web secure and robust for citizen journalists,” has been accepted to SIGCOMM 2013. SIGCOMM is the flagship conference of the special interest group on data communications of…

–Kanak Biscuitwala From the outset of the development of Dispatch, our primary goal has been to protect the identities, content, and credibility of anyone using Dispatch to disseminate information. In cryptographic language, this means we needed to develop a protocol…

Early Saturday morning Dispatch machines were the latest of a string of machines at Stanford to be targeted by external hackers. The machines were compromised for approximately 30 hours before being dismantled. We’ve taken these systems down and have temporarily…

Dispatch had its soft launch on Saturday at the 2013 NICAR conference and received great feedback on the app from the attending investigative reporters. We’re now working on incorporating that feedback as we develop the app further. One insightful participant…