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I'm an information security engineer, a software engineer, an investigative data journalist, and an . I use he/him pronouns, and my name is pronounced "muy-kah."I started the where I help develop an open source app called that helps people claw back their data from Big Tech.I worked for The Intercept for a decade, where I was director of information security. I also used to work as a staff technologist at Electronic Frontier Foundation, and I helped co-found Freedom of the Press Foundation. I did for journalists while Edward Snowden was leaking NSA docs to them.I'm the author of , a hands-on book that teaches journalists, researchers, and activists how download, research, analyze, and report on datasets. (No prior experience required.)I develop open source security tools like and . You can check out my .To get in touch, .BooksIn 2024, I published a book (with No Starch Press) to help teach journalists, researchers, and activists the technical skills required for 21st century data journalism."As a journalist who has been working with data breaches for close to ten years, actually getting to grips with that data is often the hardest part of any reporting project. Lee's clear and concise book will be an invaluable resource for reporters or researchers just dipping into this sort of data, or those looking for new techniques."- Joseph Cox, Co-founder of 404 Media"Micah’s book is a fantastic and friendly introduction for journalists, activists, and anyone else who is interested in learning to analyze large data sets but has been too intimidated by the technical details. I hope this book will inspire more people to find the stories inside the data."- Eva Galperin, Director of Cybersecurity, Electronic Frontier FoundationSelect ProjectsTech platforms can't be trusted. Cyd is an open source app for Windows, Mac, and Linux that helps you create a local, private backup of your data — like all of your tweets, retweets, likes, bookmarks, and direct messages. Once you've done this, Cyd helps you choose what data you want to delete from your online account. You can delete it all, or you can be selective, deleting most of it but keeping what went viral. It can also help you migrate your data from closed platforms into open ones — for example, you can migrate your tweets from X into Bluesky.In 2014, I developed OnionShare, an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files using the Tor network — for transferring secret documents around the world without the NSA knowing. I still work on OnionShare today alongside a vibrant community. It's available for Windows, macOS, Linux, as well as Android and iPhone, and it also allows you to make your computer an anonymous dropbox, host Tor onion sites, and spin up anonymous chatrooms.In 2020, I developed Dangerzone, an open source tool that lets anyone take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs that won't hack you. For a lot of people, like journalists and activists, it your job to open random attachments from strangers, but these documents might hack your computer. Dangerzone, inspired by the Qubes operating system, solves that problem for people who use Windows, macOS, or Linux. In 2022, Freedom of the Press Foundation development of the project.Select PublicationsIn March 2025, Trump's then national security advisor Mike Waltz accidentally invited a journalist into a a Signal group where they discussed a war crime. In May 2025, Waltz was photographed using a modified version of Signal called TM SGNL, made by TeleMessage. Based on reverse engineering the TeleMessage source code and, and data from a hack of TeleMessage's archive server, I proved that TeleMessage is not end-to-end encrypted like it claimed. Senator Ron Wyden cited my work.A month after Hamas's October 2023 attack on Israel and Israel's brutal response, the Anti-Defamation League published an interactive map showing a massive uptick in "antisemitic incidents and anti-Israel rallies" in the US since the war broke out. After extracting and analyzing the data from the map, I discovered that a large portion of the protests that ADL framed as "antisemitic" were actually organized by American Jews, including rabbis and children of Holocaust survivors, protesting genocide.After Elon Musk purchased Twitter and started restoring the accounts of people banned for hate speech, harassment, and misinformation, he also starting banning the accounts of his critics. I'm one of the journalists that he suspended in December 2022, shortly after I had published several articles critical of the billionaire's handling of Twitter. (My account is back, but I no longer use it.)After Russia illegally invaded Ukraine in 2022, dozens of Russian organizations — including government agencies, oil and gas companies, and financial institutions — were hacked, with terabytes of stolen data leaked onto the internet.A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, I received hacked data about the anti-vax group America's Frontline Doctors. The data also revealed that 72,000 people paid at least $6.7 million (but probably much more) for fake health care promoted by vaccine conspiracist and January 6 insurrectionist Simone Gold. This reporting led to a Congressional investigation into the pandemic profiteers.During the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprising, hundreds of law enforcement websites were hacked. The BlueLeaks archive contains over 16 million rows of data, including emails, descriptions of alleged crimes, and detailed personal information.As the COVID-19 pandemic began to ravage the world and businesses were forced to shift to remote work, and I discovered that Zoom had been lying to its users about end-to-end encryption. Our reporting led to an FTC settlement that forced Zoom to implement real end-to-end encryption, and an $85 million class action lawsuit against the company.From 2016 through 2019, I led an ambitious project at The Intercept to comprehensively, and responsibly, report on documents from the NSA Signals Intelligence Directorate's internal classified blog called SIDtoday. We published and reported on over 2,000 Snowden documents, by far more than any other newsroom with access to the archive.In 2018, a source sent me an internal leak of direct messages from a WikiLeaks Twitter group. I, along with Cora Currier, reported on years of private messages — containing misogyny, transphobia, and antisemitism — between Julian Assange and his most loyal supporters on Twitter.Select Speaking EngagementsHacks, Leaks and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked DataWorkshop: BlueLeaks Explorer: Learn to Analyze Hacked Police Documents2024, Queens, New York | HOPE XV -- upcomingWe Are Drowning in Data and Barely Anyone is Looking at It2024, Vancouver, Canada | BSides Vancouver (Keynote)2023, Portland, Oregon | BSides PDX2023, Las Vegas, Nevada | DEF CON 31 Misinformation VillageWorkshop: Reading Other People's Email2023, Philadelphia, Pennslyvania | Online News Association (ONA23)2018, New York, New York | The Circle of HOPE2012, New York, New York | HOPE Number 9Employment HistoryIndependent Consultant (2024 to present)The Intercept, Director of Information Security (2023 to 2024)Defended computer systems and staff from nation states, APTs and other cyber threatsProtected confidential sources and their communication with journalistsProduced investigative journalism related to tech and leaked datasetsFirst Look Media, Director of Information Security (2020 to 2023)Defended computer systems and staff from nation states, APTs and other cyber threatsLed a team of 5 security and IT staffProtected confidential sources and their communication with journalistsProduced investigative journalism related to tech and leaked datasetsFirst Look Media, Technology Analyst for The Intercept (2013 to 2020)Computer security engineering for The InterceptProduced investigative journalism (much of which based on the )Electronic Frontier Foundation, Staff Technologist (2012 to 2013)Developed open source security and privacy tools for EFFExplained technical topics like encryption to journalistsElectronic Frontier Foundation, Web Developer (2011 to 2012)Maintained EFF's web infrastructureMiscellaneous Web Developer (teenager to 2011)A whole lot of WordPress, Drupal, and custom PHP/MySQLCredit: Blog icon by , Lee's clear and concise book will be an invaluable resource for reporters or researchers just dipping into this sort of data, or those looking for new techniques.", Hi, I'm Micah. I'm a coder, a journalist, and I help people stay private and secure..
Despite their misleading marketing, TeleMessage, the company that makes a modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs from its customers. In this post I give a high level overview of how the TeleMessage fake Signal app, called TM SGNL, works and why it's so insecure. Then I give a thorough analysis of the source code for TM SGNL's Android app, and , Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials Screenshot of TN SNGL Android source code, with some hardcoded credentials highlighted, This weekend I went to BSides SF 2023 and had a blast. I went to some really interesting talks (including an excellent one about adversarial machine learning), but mostly I spent my time solving CTF hacking challenges. And this time, I did it with the help of GPT-4, the latest, DOGE bro Kyle Schutt's computer infected by malware, credentials found in stealer logs Photo by Kanchanara / Unsplash Kyle Schutt is a 37 year old "DOGE software engineer," according to ProPublica. In February, Drop Site News reported that he gained access to FEMA's "core financial management system." His computer was apparently compromised with malware, because his email address and passwords , TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked., Some Thoughts on Faraday Bags and Operational Security I recently took a trip to Moscow to interview National Security Agency whistblower Edward Snowden about operational security. In the article I published on The Intercept, I mentioned that I used a faraday bag. Our first meeting would be in the hotel lobby, and I arrived with all my important electronic gear in tow. I had powered down my .