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The article reviews Cindy Cohn's new memoir "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance," describing it as an excellent account of her three major legal battles. Cohn, the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, recounts her career fighting digital surveillance through this legal history and memoir.
DDoSecrets has released 410 GB of heap dump data obtained from a hack of TeleMessage's archive server. The data includes information from the company's customers, which reportedly include law enforcement agencies and financial institutions.
TeleMessage's customer list includes DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds of other organizations, according to analysis of 410 GB of Java heap dumps from the company's archive server.
Micah Lee has created an open source research tool called TeleMessage Explorer to analyze data from a massive hack of TeleMessage, the company behind a modified Signal app used by Trump's former national security advisor Mike Waltz.
Signal groups can help activists safely organize protests, mutual aid, and resistance efforts against authoritarianism and fascism. The encrypted messaging app provides secure communication for community organizing.
Micah Lee is presenting a talk titled "We are currently clean on OPSEC: The Signalgate Saga" at DEFCON on Saturday at 4pm. The talk will take place in LVCC - L1.
Micah Lee gave his first solo main stage DEFCON talk about Signalgate, which he described as a resounding success with a packed room and positive feedback.
The ICEBlock iPhone app allows users to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5-mile radius and receive notifications about nearby reports. The app was discussed at the HOPE conference, though critics argue it serves as "activism theater" rather than effective action.
The author previously criticized the ICEBlock app as "activism theater" based on its creator's talk at HOPE conference. The article now details how ICEBlock handled the author's vulnerability report in what they describe as "the worst possible way."
Micah Lee will give the Saturday morning keynote at BSidesPDX in Portland, Oregon. His talk will focus on the new American technofascist reality involving mercenary spyware, device searches, and app censorship.
Micah Lee gave a keynote at BSidesPDX discussing the reality of facing Trump's fascist regime and providing practical advice for communities to defend themselves. The talk is available to watch or read.
Micah Lee discussed the ICEBlock app and its classification as activism theater on the Kill Switch podcast. He also addressed how the developer poorly handled his vulnerability report regarding the application.
Journalist Micah Flee published an article analyzing 26,000 Epstein documents released by the House Oversight Committee, revealing elite impunity and implicating prominent figures.
Jeffrey Epstein's Kindle library included books about pedophilia, Woody Allen, and Donald Trump. The collection revealed his interests in Lolita, how elites avoid accountability, and Trump's scandals.
Signal groups are being used by activists to organize mutual aid and rapid response networks during ICE operations in American cities. In Minneapolis, people are creating hyper-local Signal groups for their buildings, streets, neighborhoods, and schools.
Hacker group Department of Peace released data about ICE contracts from the DHS's Office of Industry Partnership. The group stated they hacked the DHS because "the DHS is killing."