Major Tea Party Group Was Backed by Salsa Billionaire and Other Wealthy Donors, Hacked Documents Reveal
Tea Party Patriots' web database contained only a small fraction of the "3 million patriots" it heralds on its site.
Micah Lee
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 in early 2024.
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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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.
Send encrypted text messages to Micah Lee to +1-201-357-0796 on Signal or @micahflee on Keybase.
Elon Musk suspended Micah from Twitter for doing journalism, and his account is still locked. Follow Micah on Mastodon instead at @micahflee@infosec.exchange, or on Bluesky at @micahflee.com.
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Browse The Intercept Anonymously and Securely Using Our New Tor Onion Service
Reading The Intercept entirely within the "dark web" minimizes the visibility of your visits.
Inside Gab, the Online Safe Space for Far-Right Extremists
The hacked data from Gab contains 65 gigabytes of data, including 4 million Gab accounts, 31,000 groups, and 39 million posts.
Donald Trump’s Gab Account Uses an Email Address Belonging to the Extremist Platform’s CEO
When I got my hands on the Gab data, the first thing I did was look up Trump’s account.
Russian Hackers Have Been Inside Austin City Network for Months
Russia appears to have used Austin’s network as infrastructure to stage additional cyberattacks.
Crumbling Case Against Assange Shows Weakness of "Hacking" Charges Related to Whistleblowing
The entire computer crime case against Assange is based on a brief discussion, between a publisher and source, about cracking a password — but the cracking never actually happened.
Protests for Black Lives
Feds Are Tapping Protesters' Phones. Here's How To Stop Them.
Use Signal and add a PIN code to your phone’s SIM card to help protect against spying.
BlueLeaks
Law Enforcement Websites Hit by BlueLeaks May Have Been Easy to Hack
Some 270GB of police files were obtained, possibly in a single evening. Backdoor software might have had something to do with it.
BlueLeaks
How Northern California's Police Intelligence Center Tracked Protests
The center sent daily emails listing upcoming protests to thousands of local police and circulated inflammatory online posts.
BlueLeaks
Hack of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Data of 700,000 Cops
The BlueLeaks archive contains over 16 million rows of data, including emails, descriptions of alleged crimes, and detailed personal information.