Contact TorWatch
Email Michael Miller, who writes TorWatch, at michaelmmillerdev@gmail.com. It is the one address for everything: corrections, news tips, questions about a guide, and press or speaking requests.
What helps most
- A correction
- The page, the sentence, and a link to the document that shows it's wrong or out of date: a newer audit, a court filing, a changed support page. A source makes the fix quick.
- A news tip
- A seizure, a sentencing, a change by the Tor Project or a privacy company. A link to the official release or filing matters more than a summary, because the news notes are written from those documents.
- A moved or dead onion address
- Say which entry in the onion sites directory it is, and where the operator now publishes its address.
- A question about a guide
- Which page, which step, and what you saw. For a Tor connection problem, the system you're on and the bridge or setting you tried.
Before you send anything sensitive
The address is a Gmail account, so your message passes through Google's servers and is stored there like any other email. Encryption in transit doesn't change that Google holds the message, and the headers show the address you sent it from and when.
- Write from an address that isn't tied to your name, and don't use your work account.
- If your network watches what you do, send it over Tor Browser from a webmail account you created over Tor. The Tor Browser guide covers setting it up.
- Strip names and locations out of screenshots and documents before attaching them. Photos and office files carry metadata, and a screenshot can show your username in a corner.
- Leave out anything that would identify you if the message were read by someone else. A tip can be useful without your name on it.
If you're a source with material about a crime or an organisation, and being identified could hurt you, an email to an independent site is the wrong channel. Use a newsroom's SecureDrop instead; several are listed in the onion sites directory.
What this address can't do
TorWatch doesn't run any of the services it writes about, so it can't recover an account, reverse a payment, unblock a market or vouch for a vendor. A message asking for any of those, or offering access to one, is not from TorWatch. Who publishes the site and how it's independent of the services it covers is on the about page.