investigativedata / hushline

Hush Line is a free and open-source app providing organizations and individuals with a censorship-resistant way to receive private messages from their community.

Hush Line 🤫

Hush Line is a free and open-source, self-hosted anonymous tip line that makes it easy for organizations or individuals to install and use. It's intended for journalists and newsrooms to offer a public tip line; by educators and school administrators to provide students with a safe way to report potentially sensitive information, or employers, Board rooms, and C-suites for anonymous employee reporting.

Easy Install:

curl -sSL https://install.hushline.app | bash

Install an e-Paper Display:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scidsg/hushline/main/scripts/waveshare-2_7in-eink-display.sh | bash

System Requirements

VPS

• OS: Debian 11/12 x64

Raspberry Pi

• Hardware: Raspberry Pi 4/3B+
• OS: Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit)
• Display (Optional): Waveshare 2.7" e-Paper display
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Hush Line deploys to either an onion-only instance or Tor + public web. It's a web and email server and a Python app that encrypts a message with your public PGP key once a message gets submitted, then saves it, and finally emails the encrypted message to you. Your data never gets saved in an unencrypted state. And since all messages are sent to your email, you never have to log in to the device.

For install instructions read the docs, or check out the full tutorial on Medium.

References

1. https://www.sauteed-onions.org/