Micah Lee

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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npub1thvlrk4v447uk48sj7j8vnnkt52g36w8wu6y5pw3j4z627hj7r7qks85st

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micahflee_at_infosec.exchange@mostr.pub

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Last Notes

2025-04-05 20:53:38

Made a new sign!
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2025-01-31 01:22:30

Major internet freedom, censorship circumvention, and encryption tools made by groups like Tor Project, Guardian Project, and OONI have been severely impacted by Trump’s State Department executive order freezing foreign aid https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/executive-order-state-department-sideswipes-freedom-tools-threatens-censorship

2025-01-13 17:39:10

When you pretend that you know how to use Linux
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2024-11-13 01:37:25

I haven't been posting so much recently but it’s because I’m hard at work writing lots of code to make it easy for everyone to delete all their shit from X. Good riddance. Will be released extremely soon

2024-08-06 01:27:04

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

2023-09-19 07:50:42

Are you a nerd who wants to help advance journalism and digital security? Freedom of the Press Foundation is hiring a Senior Security Engineer! https://freedom.press/jobs/?gh_jid=4316656005

2023-09-15 17:40:29

The first result in the iPhone App Store when you search for “mastodon” is the Threads app
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2023-09-06 19:21:46

I just emailed press@twitter.com (and press@x.com for good measure) with a media query. And hey look, the auto-reply message is no longer just "💩"
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2023-09-01 22:14:52

Ron DeSantis Is Afraid of Questions From a 15-Year-Old https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-president-candidate-ron-desantis-is-afraid-of-questions-from-15-year-old-quinn-mitchell

2023-09-01 21:52:14

"Corporations rely on the illusion of corporate personhood, using expensively crafted 'brand identities' to present themselves to us as having personalities aimed at making us feel an emotional connection--and like we're all in this together. But firms have no intrinsic virtues. They are not our friends. If a corporation is a 'person,' it's an immortal colony organism that treats human beings as inconvenient gut flora. It doesn't have a personality and it doesn't have ethics. Its sole imperative is to do whatever it can get away with to extract maximum economic value from humans and the planet."
~ Rebecca Giblin and @npub1hyk…3p33 in Chokepoint Capitalism

2023-08-25 00:57:59

Finally
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2023-08-23 21:15:15

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2023-08-17 04:16:30

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

2023-08-17 00:02:05

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
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2023-08-12 20:34:16

I’m about to do my first book signing! The early #defcon Edition print of my book is mostly sold out, but they saved some copies for the signing so come on over! I’ll be at the No Starch table in the vendor area from 2 to 2:30
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2023-08-12 16:46:56

Are you at #defcon ? Stop by the @npub12g2…e9nm booth in the vendor area to get @npub1uqv…5rrf swag!
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2023-08-11 16:04:26

Connecting to Wi-Fi at #defcon
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2023-08-10 21:34:41

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Got an awesome defcon.social sticker too #defcon hi
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2023-08-10 16:22:44

Big plugs for the #defcon Mastodon instance in the registration line https://defcon.social
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2023-08-09 16:32:37

Secret Pakistan cable documents US pressure to remove Imran Khan as Pakistan’s Prime Minister https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cypher-ukraine-russia/

2023-08-01 22:31:12

The only time I ever watch TV news is when Trump is getting indicted again lol

2023-04-13 00:28:54

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).
Unlike Mastodon, it has much better UX, and people are very excited about getting to have good timeline algorithms that they themselves have control over. (I haven't done a scientific poll or anything, but my guess is most people online prefer algorithms to show them stuff they might miss vs. sequential timelines.)
Everyone agrees Twitter is terrible now, but there's definitely a lot of people who haven't made the jump to Mastodon. I think Bluesky might end up attracting a lot of the people who are turned off by Mastodon being way too confusing and unfamiliar.