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For Tech Whistleblowers, There’s Safety in Numbers

Victoria Turk

created: May 19, 2025, 10 a.m. | updated: May 21, 2025, 7:41 p.m.

Amber Scorah knows only too well that powerful stories can change society—and that powerful organizations will try to undermine those who tell them. In 2019 she wrote a memoir about leaving her tight-knit religion, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, that exposed issues within the secretive organization. Then, while working at a media outlet that connects whistleblowers with journalists, she noticed parallels in the coercive tactics used by groups trying to suppress information. To safely share secrets, tech whistleblowers can go to psst.org and enter details in an encrypted text-box. It also helps protect the identity of anonymous whistleblowers by making it harder to pinpoint the source of a leak.

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