URMAJOURNALISM.
PRESERVED.

JOURNALISM. PRESERVED.

The story doesn’t end with the camera.

A camera can be seized. A newsroom can be shut. URMA moves the encrypted record beyond the device, and keeps the ability to read it with the people holding the key.

  1. Capture
  2. Encrypt
  3. Publish
  4. Recover

The trace is cut, and seals. Recovery needs published material, your separately kept key and accessible records — product design, not a released guarantee.

What survives How it works →

01 / THIS IS WHAT WE ARE HERE FOR

What they can take.
What stays yours.

Every story has a point where someone can make it disappear.
We’re here to move the record beyond that point.

THE PRESSURE / THE DIFFERENCE

01 / THE DEVICE

The capture device is gone.

A camera or phone is seized, destroyed or lost. Its local copy is no longer available.

WITHOUT AN INDEPENDENT COPY

Camera
Only copy
Lost

The file dies with the device.

When the only copy is on the camera, destroying it destroys the route back to the photograph.

WITH URMA

Published
Your key
Your file

The original stays in reach.

A reader retrieves the completed publication from accessible historical records and opens it with the separately kept key. The original device is not required.

02 / THE PERSON

The reporter is cut off.

The reporter is detained or loses contact. The newsroom or a trusted reader still needs the material.

WITHOUT AN INDEPENDENT COPY

Reporter
Device
Newsroom

The handoff is cut off.

If access depends on the reporter sending the file or unlocking the device, the handoff stops when contact is lost.

WITH URMA

Published
Trusted key
Newsroom

The evidence can still speak.

A trusted reader who already holds the secret can recover completed publications without the reporter’s device or participation.

03 / THE PROVIDER

The platform stops being a way in.

A provider, CDN or platform is compromised, censored, deleted or denies access.

WITHOUT AN INDEPENDENT COPY

File
Provider
Blocked

One provider controls the only route.

If the only accessible copy sits behind that service, deletion or denied access cuts off recovery. A compromised provider may also expose any material it can read.

WITH URMA

History
Your key
Reader

Use an independent source.

A compatible reader retrieves retained encrypted records from another accessible source and opens them with your key, without the original platform or URMA service. Possession of ciphertext alone does not grant access to the media.

TWO BOUNDARIES, MADE EXPLICIT

Preservation starts
before the loss.

PUBLICATION REQUIRED

The bytes have to get out.

If power or connectivity fails before publication finishes and the device is lost, neither route can recreate the missing bytes. Our reader reports an incomplete result instead of claiming a recovered file.

ACCESSIBLE RECORDS REQUIRED

A copy must be reachable.

If no source can supply the required records, recovery waits on access. Independent archives reduce reliance on one provider; they do not make connectivity or retained history unnecessary.

These are product-design scenarios. Conventional independent backups and end-to-end encryption can also protect material. Preservation does not prevent detention or coercion, and content encryption does not hide all publication metadata.

The evidence behind the design ↗

02 / THE REASON WE EXIST

Freedom of the press
needs a longer memory.

A seized camera. A wiped memory card. A newsroom forced offline. Too often, controlling the place a story lives means controlling whether it survives. Read the documented cases, starting with WikiLeaks ↗

URMA changes where that power sits. The encrypted material travels beyond the device, onto independent infrastructure. The ability to read it stays with the people holding the recovery secret.

Read the mission

03 / CHOOSE YOUR GROUND

The mission stays.
The network can change.

Preservation is the purpose. Chains are infrastructure.
Choose the redundancy the story calls for.

THE DEFAULT

Litecoin.

The everyday publication route. Designed as the starting point for getting selected, encrypted material beyond the device.

PRIMARY PRESERVATION
EXTRA REDUNDANCY

Bitcoin.

An additional preservation layer for your highest-priority material. A deliberate choice when the higher publication cost is justified.

REINFORCE THE RECORD
THE HORIZON

Beyond.

One protocol, extensible transports. New chains and storage systems can become destinations without becoming the identity of URMA.

OPEN TO WHAT COMES NEXT

Product direction: Litecoin first, optional Bitcoin redundancy. Additional transports follow their own availability and trust models.

Explore the architecture ↗

LET THE WORK SPEAK

Journalism needs witnesses.
History needs the files.

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