Topic
Civil liberties
Articles framed by the civil-liberties tradition the publication draws from — the Brandeis formulation, the post-Snowden settlement, and the legal scholarship the operator reads against its own posture.
11 min read
Jurisdictional drift 2024-2026 — Iceland, Switzerland, and the EU treaty layer
Legal developments that shifted civil-liberties hosting assumptions in Iceland and Switzerland over 2024-2026 — the Swiss revFADP entry into force, the BÜPF revision question, the EU e-Evidence Regulation, NIS2, and the Cybercrime Convention's Second Additional Protocol.
11 min read
Warrant canaries — operational, legal, theatrical
A reading of the warrant canary as a triptych — operational (signed denial, regular cadence, contemporaneous referent), legal (compelled-silence vs compelled-speech), theatrical (signal between operators and sophisticated readers) — and a note on the editorial-register customer's adjacent posture.
14 min read
After Snowden: what changed in privacy hosting
An editorial reading of the structural changes the 2013 Snowden disclosures produced in the privacy-hosting industry, what those changes did and did not accomplish, and what the OffshorePress operator considers the unfinished work of the post-2013 settlement.
13 min read
Threat models for activist archives
An editorial framing of the threat model an archival project — a leak repository, a documentation collection, an institutional memory — should reason about before committing to a hosting decision, drawing on the documented record of archival projects that survived adversarial pressure and those that did not.
13 min read
Choosing a jurisdiction: Iceland versus Switzerland for civil-liberties hosting
A side-by-side reading of the two jurisdictions in which OffshorePress operates — the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative against the Swiss constitutional telecommunications-secrecy clause, with notes on what each posture protects and what it does not.
14 min read
Why offshore hosting matters for journalism
A sober account of the structural reasons an investigative newsroom benefits from hosting outside the jurisdiction in which its adversaries operate, drawn from the post-Snowden record and the operational decisions a small operator can make.