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Micah Lee

@micahflee.com
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Doing what I can to keep activists, journalists, and researchers safe and productive — writing at micahflee.com — author of HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS hacksandleaks.com — signal: micah.01

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
I tracked down the very likely specific Flock camera itself. It's in Wauwatosa, a suburb of Milwaukee. Here's a photo of it from Google Street View. The GPS coordinates were in the logs
a screenshot from Google Street View of the Flock camera itself
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 08/09/2026
Post from Mastodon user @intransitivelie@beige.party:

I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.

I'm happy to give you all the information you need to reproduce these unfortunate and completely unforeseen errors yourself.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 04/09/2026
Fetterman was gonna write a pro-Israel op-ed based on talking points from an Israeli ambassador. But his staff didn't tell him when the embassy sent the talking points because it risked violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Last September, Israel Ambassador Yechiel Leiter met with Fetterman in his office, and suggested an alternative: Fetterman could write an op-ed explaining why he continued to support Israel, according to people familiar with the matter. 

Fetterman agreed, and told Leiter he would write the submission based on any points the ambassador sent over, according to these people. A few days later, embassy staff sent over drafted points for Fetterman to consider. 

Fetterman staffers decided not to tell him about it, out of concern that drafting an op-ed based on suggestions from the Israeli embassy, under the senator’s name, risked violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. A spokeswoman for Israel’s embassy declined to comment.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 02/09/2026
I just made a little OpenCode plugin to measure the tokens/sec of various models. Useful for measuring how fast local open weights models are running github.com/micahflee/op...
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 08/08/2026
Really nice to see that this is a prominent message of the AI Village DEFCON
Artwork that says: “ART is made by HUMANS”
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 08/08/2026
I found the coolest AI stickers at defcon
Stickers with cats looking behind them, with the Anthropic and OpenAI logos as their buttholes
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 07/07/2026
from a group chat I'm in
One person: anyone know anyone at anthropic? sales has been infuriatingly slow getting back to us about changing account tiers and it's becoming a business risk

Another person: I know this guy Claude there, but he has not much sway
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 23/06/2026
I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo
Kurt Vonnegut's asshole drawingAnthropic's Claude logo
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 18/06/2026
Stephen Miller as Gollum, with a fish in his mouse, sitting in the algea-filled Reflecting Pool in DC
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 02/06/2026
Uhhh I feel like if you don’t beat your wife there is a good answer to that accusation
“Rosenbaum would not weigh in on the accuracy of Pangram’s results. In fact, he didn’t want to talk about them at all. “I don’t participate in that conversation,” he said. “It’s like saying, do you beat your wife? It’s one of those accusations that there’s no response to.””
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 21/05/2026
Cyd for Bluesky is here! I’ve been working on this for months, and also using it on my own account for months. Here are my settings
- Delete posts older than 30 days unless they have at least 20 likes or 20 reposts
- Delete reposts older than 30 days
- Delete likes older than 30 days
- Delete chat messages older than 21 days
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 20/05/2026
You all should read Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance by Cindy Cohn, @eff.org's Executive Director. Here's my fav part micahflee.com/read-cindy-c...
A quote from Privacy's Defender: "I'd later learn that it wasn't quite true that no one at EFF knew anything about the leaks. Micah Lee, who was one of EFF's technologists at the time and also served as the chief technology officer of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, had communicated with Snowden and helped to connect him with Laura. Micah had even helped Snowden try to build a website where he considered publishing a manifesto and a petition for supporters to sign. Micah did not tell me (or anyone else at EFF) about this until long afterward. As general counsel to EFF as well as lead counsel in the NSA cases, it was, to put it mildly, something I would have liked to have known. In the end Snowden decided against publishing the website, which was both the right decision and a great relief when Micah finally told me the whole story."
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 06/04/2026
He was obviously a psychopath back in the 2016 when he said we should murder the families of terrorists and just “take the oil” from Iraq
Headline: “Donald Trump on terrorists: ‘Take out their families’”Headline: “Trump Said ‘Take the Oil’ From Iraq. Can He?
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 23/03/2026
We're getting ready to release Facebook support for @cyd.social! Want to beta test it? Read this and fill out the form by this weekend if you're interested nextcloud.lockdown.systems/apps/forms/s...
Screenshot of Cyd's new Facebook support
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 08/03/2026
We're about to release @cyd.social for iPhone and Android, making it easy to backup and delete your Bluesky data, except for what you want to keep! Want to beta test? Read this and fill out the form before March 16 if you're interested nextcloud.lockdown.systems/apps/forms/s...
Screenshot of Cyd Mobile in action with options for what to delete
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 04/02/2026
Truly America’s finest news source
Photo of the print edition of The Onion
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 01/02/2026
Barbie doll, holding a cigarette, with a coffee mug that says "GTFO", with her hands on her head. Caption: "We made it to February guys"
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 28/01/2026
lmfao
Elon Musk tweeting: "WhatsApp is not secure. Even Signal is questionable. Use X Chat."Grok explaining why Signal is better than X Chat
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 21/01/2026
Here's the text of the Fourth Amendment. It's simple, short, and easy to understand
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 20/01/2026
I visited Bletchley Park, which is now a museum of the WW2 codebreakers, and here’s a newspaper from 1938 I took a photo of. Doesn’t this sound exactly like Trump? The authoritarian victimhood
“Hilter says ‘This is my business’: Sudeten Nazis Must Have Self-Determination”

“Germany will give help if ‘torture’ does not cease”

“‘We have made terrific sacrifices for peace’”
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 20/01/2026
Guess what? I’ve been slowly but surely working on a @cyd.social mobile app with support for basically making your Bluesky account ephemeral. It’s not ready yet, but as I test I’m going to start deleting my old posts, reposts, likes, and chats (chat messages in my account, anyway)
Screenshot of Cyd Mobile dashboard Screenshot of the save optionsScreenshot of the delete options
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 18/01/2026
One of my labelers is labeling that link “Fringe Media & Disinfo”. Do you have a non-bullshit source for that? It’s probably not true
A screenshot of Jake’s post with the label “Fringe Media & Disinfo”
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 31/12/2025
Spending my flight reading Escape from Incel Island! a novella by @margaret.bsky.social
Book cover for Escape From Incel Island! “Somebody’s about to get laid… to rest!”
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 01/12/2025
I have subscribed to America's Finest News Source @theonion.com
Welcome email from The Onion:

Welcome To The Onionati. 

Your Onion membership allows you to peel back the curtain and access stories that you always suspected to be true, but never had the proof. Now you do. 

For example: Does the 1% rule the world? Yes. Can you do anything about it? No. Will recycling help? Also no. 

Warning: the truths you will learn can make you seem unbalanced to the non-members but their opinions will no longer matter to you. 

Welcome to the Onionati.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 06/11/2025
🙃
chryon says: By winning, Democrats are actually losing
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 31/10/2025
I made a little project called Claudito (little Claude, in a sandbox) that runs Claude Code in a docker container, isolating it from your filesystem, your SSH keys, etc. Check it out: github.com/micahflee/cl...
Screenshot of using claudito in a terminal
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 14/09/2025
Comic strip about the bone farmer, by Matt Lubchansky from 2018. Extremely relevant to the Charlie Kirk murder.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 04/09/2025
Italian dockworkers threaten Israel cargo ban if Gaza flotilla blocked www.politico.eu/article/ital...
Flyer for Italian dockworkers direct action. “If we lose contact with our boats, with our comrades, even for just 20 minutes, we will shut down all of Europe.”
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/08/2025
An armored US ICE agent with a subway sandwich getting thrown at him, and the words "DONT BREAD ON ME"
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 10/08/2025
Lockdown Systems and @cyd.social representing at DEFCON
Photo of sticker wall with stickers for Cyd and Lockdown Systems, and “we are clean on OPSEC”
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 26/06/2025
What a joke
New York Times article with headline: “Mamdani’s Success Spotlights a Deepening Rupture Among U.S. Jews”New York Times article with headline: “Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture”
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 22/06/2025
Trump’s post to Truth Social announcing the US attacked IranQuote from 1984 by George Orwell that include: War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 26/05/2025
Also, here are some details about the a 24 year old White House staffer in the dataset
Executive Office of the President

By the way, one of those OAuth2 validations is for an email address that has the domain who.eop.gov. The who part is "White House Office," and the eop part is "Executive Office of the President."

I spent some time digging into this particular person based on his work phone number, work email address, and his name, all of which I found in this dataset.

I haven't yet found anything egregious, but here are some of the interesting highlights:

    He's a member of the "POTUS | ROME-VATICAN | PRESS GC" Signal group.
    He's a young white conservative man.
    Last August, before Trump's inauguration, he posted on LinkedIn that he was starting a position at Donald J. Trump For President 2024, Inc.
    Also according to LinkedIn, he got his bachelor degree from the University of Alabama in 2024.
    I found him on Tinder, and it included his birthday. He was born in 2001, and today is his birthday! He just turned 24.
    Someone with his same username has logged 680 hours of Fortnite.
    His Venmo transactions are open, lol.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 26/05/2025
TeleMessage is the comically insecure Israeli firm that makes the modified Signal app used by Trumpers. I've decided to publish my code as open source in the hopes that other journalists will use it to find revelations in this dataset
A screenshot of TeleMessage Explorer looking at Signal groups in the dataset. One of the groups is called: POTUS | ROME-VATICAN | PRESS GC
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 06/05/2025
Always a comforting sign when someone who isn't you is searching for your email address in @haveibeenpwned.com 🫠
An email from Have I Been Pwned: "You (or possibly someone else), just subscribed micah@micahflee.com to the notification service that will automatically let you know if your address is caught up in a future data breach. It's a free service and you can unsubscribe at any time if you don't want the notifications."
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 05/05/2025
I'm analyzing the TM SGNL source code and will publish findings tomorrow. But the for a sneak peak, here's how it seems TeleMessage's system works: There's E2EE between TM SGNL and Signal, but NOT between TM SGNL and archive destinations. TM's archive server can read the chat logs. Stay tuned.
Diagram that shows:
- E2EE chat logs between TM SGNL and Signal
- TM SGNL sends data to archive server using HTTPS API
- Archive server sends data to destinations using SMTP, SFTP, or Microsoft 365
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 05/05/2025
Meme with “MAGA” looking at “made in Israel Signal fork” thinking “is this end-to-end encryption?”
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 05/05/2025
We wrote it together and both have bylines. It’s the same article
Screenshot of the 404 Media’s article, with Joseph Cox and Micah Lee having bylines together
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 04/05/2025
One hacked message was sent to a group chat apparently associated with the crypto firm Galaxy Digital. One message said, “need 7 dems to get to 60.. would be very close” to the “GD Macro” group. Another message said, “Just spoke to a D staffer on the senate side - 2 cosponsors (Alsobrooks and gillibrand) did not sign the opposition letter so they think the bill still has a good chance of passage the senate with 5 more Ds supporting it.”

This means a hacker was able to steal what appears to be active, timely discussion about the efforts behind passing a hugely important and controversial cryptocurrency bill; Saturday, Democratic lawmakers published a letter explaining they would oppose it. Bill cosponsors Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand did not sign that letter.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 04/05/2025
New bug report opened in the TM SGNL github repo github.com/micahflee/TM...
Screenshot of bug report called: The group chat includes people that were never invited
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 22/04/2025
Photo of JD Vance shaking Pope Francis's hand on the "Vampiric Touch" Magic: The Gathering card, which deals 5 to 30 Necrotic damage
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 17/04/2025
This is fun and exciting space news! Too bad Americans elected an authoritarian idiot who hates science and everything good
The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut NASA’s science budget in half, eliminating future space telescope and other astrobiology projects. If that happens, Dr. Krissansen-Totton said, “the search for life elsewhere would basically stop.”
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/04/2025
I went out to see @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social today! Along with about 30,000 other people
Photo of Bernie Sanders speaking Photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 05/04/2025
Made a new sign!
My sign says, “WE ARE CURRENTLY CLEAN ON OPSEC”
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 02/04/2025
Picture of a metal urinal that looks surprisingly similar to a Cybertruck. Underneath it says: "2024 Tesla Cybertruck. $120,000"
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 29/03/2025
Just a car? That’s malarkey! Just say no to oligarchy!
Me holding a sign that says: Own a Tesla? How Embarrassing
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 29/03/2025
At least 300 people protesting Tesla in Sacramento! Most of the cars are honking and cheering in support. Lots of folks don’t like the oligarchy!
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 29/03/2025
Fixed my sign!
Me holding the sign at a Tesla Takedown protest, but with “embarrassing” spelled right
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 28/03/2025
I made a sign for tomorrow’s #TeslaTakedown protests!
Sign that says:
OWN A TESLA?
HOW EMBARRASSING
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 27/03/2025
Aragon: "You have my sword"
Legolas: "And you have my bow"
Gimli: "And my axe"
Saruman: "Am I supposed to be in this group chat?"
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