Ultimately, you use the service at your own risk. Like all software, it could have security bugs that are exploitable. SecureDrop is regularly audited by independent security experts. The message will then also be securely deleted from our servers. If you wish to log back in to check for responses from The Times, we recommend that you delete each message as soon as you have read it. If this is a serious concern, we encourage you not to include identifying information within your submission. We will not know the source of tips submitted through SecureDrop: If your name or other identifiers are included in the tip itself, it may not be redacted from the information we share with the reporters. After it has been stripped of metadata, and, if possible, known source information, tips and submitted documents will be accessible to our editors and reporters.

Before distributing your submission to reporters, we will decrypt your submission on a computer that has never been connected to the internet and remove any metadata associated with it. The information you send us is stored on our SecureDrop servers in an encrypted format. McBride, the author of the National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird and the memoir The Color of Water, among other books, conducts his antic symphony with deep feeling. The SecureDrop servers are under the physical control of The New York Times. For example, if you submit a tip to us with Signal, we will only respond to you using Signal. We will respond to tips using the same method in which they were submitted. Each method provides different levels of protection, so we encourage you to be certain of the pros and cons of the method you choose. We will be reviewing messages regularly, but cannot promise each will receive an individual response. Here is proof that this company is conducting itself unethically. Here is evidence that this government representative is breaking the law. While we agree it is unfair that your neighbor is stealing cable, we would not write a story about it. Finally, a news tip should be newsworthy. A good news tip should articulate a clear and understandable issue or problem with real-world consequences. The broad attack by Palestinian militants, which Hamas viewed as mostly successful, revealed some significant failures.

Speculating or having a hunch does not rise to the level of a tip. Israel’s defense failures may change strategy toward Hamas and Gaza. A strong news tip will have several components.

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