SecureDrop and Alexandre Oliva are 2016 Free Software Awards winners

The Free Software Foundation has announcedthe winners of the 2016 Free Software Awards. The Award for Projectsof Social Benefit went to SecureDropand the Award for the Advancement of Free Software went to Alexandre Oliva. "SecureDrop is an anonymous whistleblowing platform used by major news organizations and maintained by Freedom of the Press Foundation. Originally written by the late Aaron Swartz with assistance from Kevin Poulsen and James Dolan, the free software platform was designed to facilitate private and anonymous conversations and secure document transfer between journalists and sensitive sources."