I want thugs and corrupted politicians to get in trouble. Not my sources and partners.

• Is a Latin-American journalist living in the US for their safety
• Investigates corruption and human-right violations by the government and the mafia
• Uses Tails to gather information from local partners and sources and get it out of the country

Primary goals

• Communicate with known and unknown peers
• Work with others who are surveilled or at risk
• Share and work on documents with others
• Store, edit, and anonymize sensitive data

Technology use

• Knows they need more digital security but struggles with technology and changing the way they always worked
• Gets info from local whistle-blowing platform
• Uses phone messaging to contact sources and partners
• Struggles to read on screens with her new reading glasses

Threats

• Has been targeted by government spyware in the past
• Local partners have been killed
• Searches and thefts while traveling for the investigation
• Searches at the border

Objectives

• Hide what they are working on until it's published
• Keep their partners and sources safe
• Bring the data outside of the country to report about it