Micah Lee 🔑 @micahflee@mastodon.social

Dangerzone: Working With Suspicious Documents Without Getting Hacked https://tech.firstlook.media/dangerzone-working-with-suspicious-documents-without-getting-hacked

Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encrypted-messaging-features-mainstream/

Mike Bloomberg in 2014: “We should hope” the NSA is “reading every email” https://theintercept.com/2020/02/14/mike-bloomberg-privacy-nsa-surveillance-emails/

In Windows, how can you find a list of installed programs that are capable of opening PDFs? Is it in the registry somewhere? Somewhere on the filesystem to look?

'Sloppy' Mobile Voting App Used in Four States Has 'Elementary' Security Flaws https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akw7mp/sloppy-mobile-voting-app-used-in-four-states-has-elementary-security-flaws

Fuck Mike Bloomberg

The apk for the Iowa caucus app is public, if anyone wants to grab it and take a look https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b3g9/here-is-a-link-to-the-shadow-inc-app-that-blew-up-the-iowa-caucus

The Iowa Caucuses App Had Another Problem: It Could Have Been Hacked https://www.propublica.org/article/the-iowa-caucuses-app-had-another-problem-it-could-have-been-hacked

Here’s what the Iowa Democratic Party should have done (and what everyone else in the business of running elections should do) to ensure that election software is as secure and reliable as possible https://theintercept.com/2020/02/05/iowa-caucus-app-election-system-security-design/

Cool, Keybase now supports third-party hosted bots (like a Github bot) that you can add to a team, but that can't read any messages in that team except ones directed to it https://keybase.io/blog/bots

If you haven't used it I'm loving the gTile gnome extension, especially on the 40" 4K TV that I use as a monitor https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/28/gtile/

Edward Snowden: Trump has created a global playbook to attack those revealing uncomfortable truths https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/26/edward-snowden-trump-has-created-global-playbook-attack-those-revealing-uncomfortable-truths/

Wow this is a very interesting story. An antifascist infiltrated the neo-Nazi terrorist organization The Base (English translation of al-Qaida), gained a position of trust, and leaked tons of chat records, audio recordings, and videos.

Prepping for a race war: documents reveal inner workings of neo-Nazi group
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/25/inside-the-base-neo-nazi-terror-group

The cases against Julian Assange and Glenn Greenwald may be models for a crackdown https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/opinion/greenwald-brazil-reporter.html