Micah Lee is The Intercept’s Director of Information Security. He is a computer security engineer and an open-source software developer who writes about technical topics, leaked datasets, and the far right. He develops security and privacy tools such as OnionShare, Dangerzone, and Semiphemeral. He’s writing a book to teach journalists and researchers how to analyze leaked datasets called Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations, to be released later in 2023.

Before joining The Intercept, he worked as a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he explained how technologies work to journalists and lawyers, and worked to encrypt the web. He is a founder and former board member of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a member of the Distributed Denial of Secrets advisory board, and a Tor Project core contributor.

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Elon Musk suspended Micah from Twitter for doing journalism, and his account is still locked. Follow Micah on Mastodon instead at @[email protected].