Micah Lee 🔑 @micahflee@mastodon.social

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow was such an inspirational book for. I can't wait to read the final in the series, Attack Surface https://www.wired.com/story/his-writing-radicalized-young-hackers-now-he-wants-to-redeem-them/

I forgot to toot this yesterday, but I'm doing a reddit AMA on r/privacy today! Check it out an ask me anything https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/j89kpo/im_micah_lee_director_of_infosec_for_the/

Feds are using sophisticated electronic surveillance against protesters in Portland. I wrote about how you can protect your Constitutionally protected privacy and freedom of assembly rights against these threats https://theintercept.com/2020/09/25/surveillance-sim-cloning-protests-protect-phone/

You should follow Distributed Denial of Secrets on here. They've been draconianly suspended from Twitter for publishing BlueLeaks, an 270gb archive of leaked police documents @ddosecrets

Sorry to post Twitter stuffs here but:

Easily automate deleting your old tweets, likes, and DMs with Semiphemeral (my Twitter privacy antifascist service)

https://micahflee.com/2020/09/semiphemeral-automate-deleting-your-old-tweets-likes-and-direct-messages/

How to Defend Against Pegasus, NSO Group's Sophisticated Spyware https://tech.firstlook.media/how-to-defend-against-pegasus-nso-group-s-sophisticated-spyware

I'm about to do a Reddit AMA about BlueLeaks, the 269gb hack of police data, with Mara Hvistendahl from The Intercept. We've been digging into the data and reporting on it -- ask any questions you have! https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/i3nnup/were_an_investigative_reporter_and_the_director/

Law enforcement scoured protestor communications and exaggerated threats to Minneapolis cops, documents from #BlueLeaks show https://theintercept.com/2020/06/26/blueleaks-minneapolis-police-protest-fears/

https://thenib.com/statue-of-limitations/

"it's unclear why DDoSecrets was banned for republishing hacked material while Wikileaks has been doing the same for years while retaining its Twitter account" https://www.businessinsider.com/blueleaks-twitter-bans-ddosecrets-account-published-secret-police-files-2020-6

If you haven't been following it, the transparency collective DDoSecrets published 270gb of hacked police data called #BlueLeaks.

In response, yesterday,Twitter permanently banned their account and started blocking all links to https://ddosecrets.com/

Is the Whonix project run by fascists? https://micahflee.com/2020/06/is-the-whonix-project-run-by-fascists/

What Social Distancing Looked Like in 1666 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/opinion/covid-plague-samuel-pepys.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion

I reverse engineered and deobfuscated a malicious Excel document that came in a phishing email. Here's the write-up https://tech.firstlook.media/reverse-engineering-obfuscated-excel-4-macro-malware

How to Pick a Video Conferencing Platform https://tech.firstlook.media/how-to-pick-a-video-conferencing-platform

I just released dangerzone 0.1.2 (Linux only)!

It's a small release that adds support to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which means it now works in Linux Mint, Elementary OS, and other Ubuntu derivatives.

Installation instructions here https://github.com/firstlookmedia/dangerzone/wiki/Installing-Dangerzone#debian-or-ubuntu