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++ This guest post is part of a spotlight series on the organizations defending the free Internet.++SZK免费翻墙网
Fear of digital surveillance breeds silence. SZK免费翻墙网
In the words of a youth activist in Zambia who took part in a research study tracking digital security threats: SZK免费翻墙网
We are all fearful. It makes you constantly paranoid. It also undermines our work. It discourages us. It's very disheartening. It's difficult to keep the fire going. I've sort of stepped back from the front line.SZK免费翻墙网
Silencing of whistleblowers, journalists and human rights defenders deprives citizens of the credible information they need to participate meaningfully in public life. It undermines democracy, enabling corruption and human rights abuses to flourish.SZK免费翻墙网
Blueprint for Free Speech is a non-profit committed above all to upholding the right to freedom of opinion and expression for all people, as enshrined by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We work internationally to promote protections for a free and independent media, the free flow of information, institutional transparency and support for whistleblowers.SZK免费翻墙网
Industrial-scale surveillance with military-grade spyware is having a chilling effect on investigative journalism and human rights advocacy work, with profound implications for access to truth about power. SZK免费翻墙网
Killer corporations
Free access to reliable information has never mattered more. Some of the world's biggest corporations are manipulating scientific data, controlling narratives and capturing regulators to sell products they know will kill us. That's not an overstatement: it's the conclusion of the New England Journal of Medicine. Their latest research shows fossil fuels, tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed foods, chemicals and pesticides, and drugs such as opioids cause 20 million deaths a year.SZK免费翻墙网
Blueprint works closely with activists, journalists and whistleblowers in many of these fields, exposing or highlighting a range of public interest issues, from data privacy violations in the EU, organ trafficking in East Africa and deaths squads in West Africa and South Africa, the collapse of quality control at Boeing in the US, and the dirty tricks deployed by big tobacco in Asia and Africa. SZK免费翻墙网
We provide them with support, public recognition, guidance, referrals and training, legal assessments, as well as arming them with actionable research. SZK免费翻墙网
More recently, with the rise of unaccountable tech oligarchs raising the spectre of a dystopian cybernetic authoritarianism, we are increasingly supporting AI whistleblowers and have added artificial intelligence safety to our arsenal of offerings through a new European project. SZK免费翻墙网
A common thread is the need to guard against intrusive surveillance. For anonymous whistleblowers, this translates into the difference between coming forward with public interest disclosures that could save lives, or staying silent. For journalists and activists, it means being able to continue the work of speaking truth to power. SZK免费翻墙网
Ricochet Refresh
Blueprint develops and maintains software that allows people to reach out to the media, NGOs and anti-corruption agencies anonymously. Ricochet Refresh is a peer-to-peer, instant messaging application by Blueprint that prioritizes user privacy and user control by design. The application and protocol are completely decentralized, and do not depend on any third-party infrastructure apart from the Tor network itself. Best of all, the project is community-driven, so we listen to what people need when using it and translate that into action.SZK免费翻墙网
Ricochet Refresh is free and open-source software that works by creating a Tor onion service on your computer, which serves as your anonymous identity and endpoint on the network. When you communicate with a contact, a Tor circuit is established between your machine, routing data through multiple nodes so that no single node knows both the origin and destination. This strengthens anonymity. All communications are end-to-end encrypted, so message contents are only visible to the parties in a conversation.SZK免费翻墙网
The architecture makes it particularly valuable for protecting freedom of expression among civil society groups worldwide who face surveillance risks. The Ricochet Refresh package also bundles in the Tor Project's censorship-circumvention tools to enable connectivity even in constrained network environments. It is one of the only free, open-source applications that allows unlimited file size transfer on a fully anonymized basis. This is incredibly important if you're a journalist, activist or whistleblower who wants to transfer large files, such as videos. SZK免费翻墙网
Cybersecurity training
Since 2024, Blueprint has conducted a series of cybersecurity training sessions in over a dozen lower- and middle-income countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, where the need for technical support to guard against digital surveillance is the greatest. We support journalists, researchers, community advocacy workers and others who face threats to their digital and often personal safety.SZK免费翻墙网
These sessions apply foundational and more advanced digital security precautions with expert facilitators on-hand to help participants make practical changes to their device set-ups during the sessions. They walk out at the end of the day more cybersecure than when they arrived in the morning. As part of this, we introduce them to metadata-resistant communications platforms -- including Ricochet Refresh -- to make it safer to receive whistleblower disclosures.SZK免费翻墙网
Whistleblowers often face vicious retaliation attacks. Anonymity gives them some protection -- and it does something else important: it shifts the public conversation from "let's blame the whistleblower!" to "let's focus on finding out about the wrongdoing".SZK免费翻墙网
The impact of this work, made possible thanks to the time and energy invested by many people and organizations who ensure the internet is kept open and secure, is tangible and profound. As this journalist in North Africa put it: SZK免费翻墙网
This session made me realise, in a very concrete way, that cybersecurity isn't just an IT department's responsibility, but also concerns my daily actions, my digital reflexes, and how I protect my professional identity online. As a journalist, this pragmatic approach was particularly useful: it gave me concrete tools, but also a new framework for analysing the risks I face.SZK免费翻墙网
The digital threats faced by defenders of truth and democracy are multiplying. So should our capacity to respond to them. The free internet is at the frontline of this battle, and Blueprint's digital protection tools make a difference where it counts.SZK免费翻墙网
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++ 这篇客座文章是“捍卫互联网自由的组织”系列专题报道的一部分。++SZK免费翻墙网
对数字监控的恐惧滋生沉默。 SZK免费翻墙网
一位参与追踪数字安全威胁研究的赞比亚青年活动家这样说道： SZK免费翻墙网
我们都很害怕。这让人时刻处于焦虑不安的状态。它也影响着我们的工作，让我们灰心丧气。这非常令人沮丧。很难保持热情。我已经逐渐从一线退了下来。SZK免费翻墙网
压制举报人、记者和人权捍卫者，剥夺了公民获取可靠信息、有效参与公共生活的能力。这损害了民主，助长了腐败和侵犯人权行为的滋生。SZK免费翻墙网
“言论自由蓝图”是一个非营利组织，其首要目标是维护所有人享有《世界人权宣言》第十九条所保障的意见和表达自由权。我们在国际范围内开展工作，致力于促进对自由独立媒体的保护、信息的自由流动、机构透明度以及对举报人的支持。SZK免费翻墙网
利用军用级间谍软件进行工业级监控，对调查性新闻报道和人权倡导工作产生了寒蝉效应，对获取有关权力的真相产生了深远的影响。 SZK免费翻墙网
杀手企业
获取可靠信息的自由渠道从未像现在这样重要。一些全球最大的企业正在操纵科学数据、控制舆论，并收买监管机构，以销售他们明知会害死人的产品。这绝非夸张之词：这是《新英格兰医学杂志》的结论。他们最新的研究表明，化石燃料、烟草、酒精、超加工食品、化学品和杀虫剂，以及阿片类药物等毒品每年导致2000万人死亡。SZK免费翻墙网
Blueprint 与许多领域的活动家、记者和举报人密切合作，揭露或强调一系列公共利益问题，包括欧盟的数据隐私侵犯、东非的器官贩运、西非和南非的死亡小队、美国波音公司的质量控制崩溃以及亚洲和非洲大型烟草公司使用的肮脏伎俩。 SZK免费翻墙网
我们为他们提供支持、公众认可、指导、转介和培训、法律评估，以及为他们提供可操作的研究成果。 SZK免费翻墙网
近年来，随着不受问责的科技寡头崛起，反乌托邦式的网络威权主义的幽灵愈发明显，我们越来越支持人工智能举报人，并通过一项新的欧洲项目，将人工智能安全纳入了我们的服务范围。 SZK免费翻墙网
共同之处在于需要防范侵入式监控。对于匿名举报人而言，这意味着他们可以选择挺身而出，披露可能挽救生命的公共利益信息，还是保持沉默。对于记者和活动人士而言，这意味着他们能够继续从事向权力说真话的工作。 SZK免费翻墙网
回弹刷新
Blueprint 开发并维护一款软件，使用户能够匿名联系媒体、非政府组织和反腐败机构。Ricochet Refresh是 Blueprint 开发的一款点对点即时通讯应用，其设计理念是优先考虑用户隐私和用户控制。该应用和协议完全去中心化，除了 Tor 网络本身之外，不依赖任何第三方基础设施。最重要的是，该项目由社区驱动，因此我们会倾听用户在使用过程中提出的需求，并将其转化为实际行动。SZK免费翻墙网
Ricochet Refresh 是一款免费开源软件，它通过在您的计算机上创建一个 Tor 洋葱服务来工作，该服务充当您在网络上的匿名身份和端点。当您与联系人通信时，会在您的计算机和 Tor 节点之间建立一条 Tor 电路，通过多个节点路由数据，因此没有任何单个节点能够同时知道数据的来源和目的地。这增强了匿名性。所有通信都采用端到端加密，因此只有对话双方才能看到消息内容。SZK免费翻墙网
这种架构使其在保护全球面临监控风险的公民社会团体的言论自由方面尤为重要。Ricochet Refresh 软件包还集成了 Tor 项目的审查规避工具，即使在网络受限的环境下也能实现连接。它是为数不多的允许完全匿名传输无限大小文件的免费开源应用程序之一。如果您是记者、活动家或举报人，需要传输视频等大型文件，这一点至关重要。 SZK免费翻墙网
网络安全培训
自2024年以来，Blueprint已在非洲、中东和亚洲十几个中低收入国家开展了一系列网络安全培训课程，这些国家最需要技术支持来防范数字监控。我们为记者、研究人员、社区倡导工作者以及其他面临数字安全乃至人身安全威胁的人士提供支持。SZK免费翻墙网
这些培训课程涵盖基础和更高级的数字安全防范措施，并配备专家指导员，帮助学员在课程期间对其设备设置进行切实可行的调整。学员们在课程结束时，网络安全意识会比早上来时更强。此外，我们还会向他们介绍抗元数据泄露的通信平台（例如 Ricochet Refresh），以便更安全地接收举报人披露的信息。SZK免费翻墙网
举报人经常面临恶毒的报复攻击。匿名可以给他们提供一定的保护——而且它还能起到另一个重要的作用：将公众的讨论焦点从“让我们谴责举报人！”转移到“让我们专注于查明不法行为”。SZK免费翻墙网
这项工作的成效显著而深远，这要归功于众多个人和组织投入的时间和精力，他们致力于维护互联网的开放和安全。正如这位北非记者所说： SZK免费翻墙网
这次培训让我非常深刻地意识到，网络安全不仅仅是IT部门的责任，它也与我的日常行为、我的数字习惯以及我如何保护我的在线职业身份息息相关。作为一名记者，这种务实的方法尤其有用：它不仅为我提供了具体的工具，还为我分析自身面临的风险提供了一个新的框架。SZK免费翻墙网
捍卫真理和民主的人们面临的数字威胁日益增多，我们应对这些威胁的能力也应随之增强。自由互联网正处于这场战斗的最前线，而Blueprint的数字保护工具在关键时刻发挥着重要作用。SZK免费翻墙网
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