Director of information security at The Intercept. Writing a book about researching hacked and leaked datasets. Maintains way too many coding projects.
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Last Notes npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee Google found guilty of illegally monopolizing the search and ad markets over the past decade! https://www.yahoo.com/news/doj-states-win-google-search-191541412.html npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee Insights from @npub1ymv…8944's Stolen AT&T Data (or: Why I Use Signal) https://blog.yaelwrites.com/insights-from-my-stolen-at-t-data-or-why-i-use-signal/ npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee There’s a lot going on at The Internet these days https://www.semafor.com/article/04/14/2024/the-intercept-is-running-out-of-cash npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee @npub1wc2…4sk7 they received gag orders for some of those, then successfully fought them, and then published after they were legally allowed to. In those cases, the only data they had about users was these two dates npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee @npub1wc2…4sk7 npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee @npub1wc2…4sk7 @npub1u6g…su6y also doesn't matter because the E2EE is all in the open source client, which confirms the server doesn't have much access to anything npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee @npub1wc2…4sk7 Signal doesn't get CIA funding npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee @npub1wc2…4sk7 yes. Signal isn't shady npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee @npub1wc2…4sk7 but I think the big thing is now journalists and other people can publish their Signal usernames in their social bios, and not have to publish their phone numbers. So no needing multiple phone numbers, no worries about SIM jacking just because you want sources to contact you securely, etc. npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee @npub1wc2…4sk7 heh I was just reading this article about it. You're in the "more hardcore set" https://www.wired.com/story/signal-launches-usersnames-phone-number-privacy/ npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee @npub1wc2…4sk7 you can now share your username without sharing your phone number npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee Signal usernames are officially in beta, and they "will be rolling out to everyone in the coming weeks" https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/ npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee On Top of Everything Else, Henry Kissinger Prevented Peace in the Middle East https://theintercept.com/2023/11/30/henry-kissinger-israel-egypt-soviet-union/ npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee On Top of Everything Else, Henry Kissinger Prevented Peace in the Middle East https://theintercept.com/2023/11/30/henry-kissinger-israel-egypt-soviet-union/ npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee This is a great article by @npub15x4…3p3l and others, unfortunately behind a paywall. But also, lol at this part https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/19/antisemiticism-interent-elon-musk-israwl-war/ npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee He Claimed God Sent Hitler to Create Israel. Now He’s Speaking at the Pro-Israel Rally. What? https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/john-hagee-hitler-israel-rally-christian-zionist/ npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee I just heard that my book, Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data, is at the printers! https://hacksandleaks.com/ npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee Oh wow, what an amazing investment opportunity npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee I just emailed [email protected] (and [email protected] for good measure) with a media query. And hey look, the auto-reply message is no longer just "💩" npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee Of the 9,200 scientists who responded to the survey, over half have cut down on their use of Twitter/X and nearly 7% have stopped using it altogether https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0 npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee The FBI just responded to a FOIA request about Daniel Ellsberg with more than 5,000 pages of historical documents. They're all public here, please take a look if you're interested https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/daniel-ellsberg-records-federal-bureau-of-investigation-147868/#files npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee Are you at #defcon ? Stop by the @npub12g2…e9nm booth in the vendor area to get @npub1uqv…5rrf swag! npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee Connecting to Wi-Fi at #defcon npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee Big plugs for the #defcon Mastodon instance in the registration line https://defcon.social npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee The only time I ever watch TV news is when Trump is getting indicted again lol npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee I just shut down Semiphemeral :( https://semiphemeral.com/ npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee Check out some of the cool new moderation features coming out of Bluesky. First, posts are automatically tagged via AI and you can choose to hide, warn, or show them. npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee People over on the invite-only beta of Bluesky (not sure how many users, but still a very small amount) are nice, happy, and excited about how interesting and open it is. Like Mastodon, it's an early decentralized social network (not compatible with the fediverse and like, with only one instance so far). npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st Micah Lee Today #[0] interviewed Matt Taibbi and it's glorious to watch him crumble when confronted with the slew of nonsense he included in his #[1] reporting. (Especially cuz once Taibbi called me an "agent of the spy state" for reporting on a leak of Gab data.)
