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.
Micah Lee
Micah Lee is The Intercept's former Director of Information Security. He's a security engineer and an open-source software developer who writes about technical topics, leaked datasets, and the far right. Micah is the author of Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Datasets, a hands-on book that teaches journalists, researchers, and activists how to download, research, analyze, and report on datasets.
Contacts:
- micah.lee@theintercept.com
- micah.01 on Signal
- @micahflee@infosec.exchange on Mastodon
- @micahflee.com on Bluesky
- @micahflee on X
Posts:
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.
Protesters, Here's How to Set Up a Cheap Burner Phone
The Intercept's security director shows how to safeguard a secondary Android phone for an anti-police protest.
Zoom’s Encryption Is “Not Suited for Secrets” and Has Surprising Links to China, Researchers Discover
Zoom rolled out its own encryption system and included an algorithm with known serious issues, say University of Toronto researchers.
Zoom Meetings Aren’t End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing
The videoconferencing service can access conversations on its platform.
Election Insecurity
The Iowa Democratic Party Did the Opposite of What It Should Have Done to Secure Its Disastrous App
Hiding the details of how a computer system works does nothing to make it more secure; election systems should instead rely on “open design.”
The Trump Administration Is Using the Full Power of the U.S. Surveillance State Against Whistleblowers
An examination of court filings in all seven leak cases filed under Trump yields a detailed picture of how the government tries to unmask confidential sources.
Snowden Archive
Meltdown Showed Extent of NSA Surveillance — and Other Tales From Hundreds of Intelligence Documents
Internal NSA reports reveal the exploits of a secret commando unit, new details of a joint venture with the CIA, and spying against Middle Eastern satellite internet.
Avoid Surveillance With Helm, a Home Server Anyone Can Use to Keep Emails Truly Private
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