The U.S. Government's Indictment of Julian Assange Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom
The Trump DOJ is exploiting animosity toward Assange to launch a thinly disguised effort to criminalize core functions of investigative journalism.
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:
Snowden Archive
Everybody Does It: The Messy Truth About Infiltrating Computer Supply Chains
The danger of China compromising hardware supply chains is very real, judging from classified intelligence documents, even if a Bloomberg story on the matter is highly disputed.
Imprisoned Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Bumped a Guard With a Door — and Got Thrown in Solitary Confinement
Hammond is starting his third week in solitary confinement — a duration that the U.N. says is tantamount to torture.
United Nations Accidentally Exposed Passwords and Sensitive Information to the Whole Internet
A security researcher discovered private data lurking on 60 Trello boards belonging to the United Nations. Sensitive information was also found in public Google documents.
Snowden Archive
328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and a Fervor for Voice-Matching Technology
Highlights from the seventh release of the internal NSA newsletter, SIDtoday.
Snowden Archive
NSA Cracked Open Encrypted Networks of Russian Airlines, Al Jazeera, and Other “High Potential” Targets
The agency broke into virtual private networks for several key targets, including two government entities in Iraq.
Election Insecurity
What Mueller’s Latest Indictment Reveals About Russian and U.S. Spycraft
The indictment has a surprising amount of technical information and presents the most detailed and plausible picture of the Russian cyberattacks so far.
Police Broke Into Chelsea Manning’s Home with Guns Drawn — in a “Wellness Check"
Video obtained by The Intercept shows police officers pointing their guns as they searched Chelsea Manning's empty apartment.
In Apple Mail, There’s No Protecting PGP-Encrypted Messages
Turning off remote content loading is supposed to mitigate against an attack known as EFAIL, which can steal encrypted messages. But the attack can still happen even if you do this.
It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked. I Spent Two Years Finding Out.
I spent two years trying to get someone to tamper with my laptop, so I could then detect it. Somewhere along the way, I realized this might never happen.