Notices by Micah Lee (micahflee@infosec.exchange)

My book HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS: THE ART OF ANALYZING HACKED AND LEAKED DATA is in the Hacking 2024 Humble Bundle!

Get it along with 17 other awesome books. Pay what you want, and the profits benefit @eff.org and ACLU https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-2024-no-starch-books

The founder of spyware maker Hacking Team was arrested for attempted murder in Italy https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/29/founder-of-spyware-maker-hacking-team-arrested-for-attempted-murder-local-media/

Instagram censored images of Gaza hospital bombing, claiming it violated guidelines for sexual content or nudity https://theintercept.com/2023/10/18/gaza-hospital-instagram-facebook-censored/

Big plugs for the #defcon Mastodon instance in the registration line https://defcon.social

I wrote a book to teach journalists, researchers, hacktivists, and anyone else who wants to learn the technologies and coding skills required to investigate hacked or leaked data! Check out some reviews, read the beginning, and pre-order it from https://hacksandleaks.com/

A different kind of ransomware demand: Donate to charity to get your data back https://cyberscoop.com/ransomware-charity-malaslocker/

The Intercept @theintercept is hiring a full-time politics reporter! https://the-intercept.breezy.hr/p/deb7079850eb-politics-reporter

If you ask #ChatGTP to generate markdown, it injects markdown inside markdown which ends up escaping the original markdown boundaries

Some of Twitter’s source code was leaked and published to GitHub lol. Twitter sent a copyright infringement notice to GitHub which took down the repo. “It was unclear how long the leaked code had been online, but it appeared to have been public for at least several months.” https://web.archive.org/web/20230327012334/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/technology/twitter-source-code-leak.html

Elon Musk is Still Silencing the Journalists he Banned from Twitter.

It looks like our accounts have been reinstated, but it's an illusion: We're actually locked out and can't post anything without deleting specific tweets the billionaire doesn't like.

This latest article embeds a Mastodon post and links to posts by @drewharwell @MattBinder @w7voa and @tony

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-twitter-banned-journalists/

Hmm, I guess I gotta start reporting some fakes

If you're a journalist on Twitter, now is a good time to close your DMs. I wouldn't trust Musk to not read them personally if he notices you

My Twitter account is no longer permanently suspended, but now it's locked unless I delete a specific tweet that billionaire Elon Musk doesn't like

I know everyone was fired/resigned from Twitter and so likely no one there will even read this, but I figured I might as well submit an appeal

Elon Musk accusing everyone who's posting about the @elonjet account of "doxing" him reminds me of when Glenn Greenwald accused me of doxing "ordinary Americans" because I wrote an article based on data leaked from Gab. https://theintercept.com/2021/03/15/gab-hack-donald-trump-parler-extremists/

I _actually_ got doxed because of that reporting. My wife and I left our home for a few days because neo-nazis on Gab were sharing our home address and photos of our front door (full of antisemitic, homophobic, and transphobic slurs and threats), and we also got incessant threats over SMS and voicemail and both had to change phone numbers as a result

Elon Musk is taking aim at journalists. I’m one of them.
Here's the tweet — and the journalism — that got me suspended from Twitter https://theintercept.com/2022/12/16/elon-musk-twitter-suspended-journalists/

Fresh off the digital presses

This morning's hate mail :blobsalute:

Changed my name on Twitter to "Micah Lee 🫡" after posting this

Here's what it looks like on the other side