'...In 2012, James Dolan worked with Aaron Swartz (Reddit co-founder found hung in Washington, D.C. in 2013) and journalist Kevin Poulsen to build the original prototype of SecureDrop, the open source whistleblower submission system.
The first iteration, StrongBox, was used by the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Associated Press, allowing secure communications between journalists and sources in possession of sensitive information and documents. Those same journalists now rely on the latest version SecureDrop.
RT Wikileaks: Second developer of WikiLeaks inspired submission system "SecureDrop", security expert James Dolan, aged 36, has tragically died. He is said to have committed suicide. The first, Aaron Swartz, is said to have taken his own life at age 26, after being persecuted…
— Free Julian Assange (@BDaddyUS) January 10, 2018
Dolan joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation to maintain SecureDrop after co-creator Swartz committed suicide as the US government was attempting to prosecute him for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in relation to allegedly copying academic articles from JSTOR..'