Micah Lee is a technologist that works on operational security, source protection, privacy, and cryptography for The Intercept. He is a founder and former board member of Freedom of the Press Foundation and the author of the "Encryption Works" handbook.
An avid GNU/Linux user, he has been writing code in a variety of languages for a variety of platforms for over a decade. He develops open source security tools including OnionShare, SecureDrop, and Tor Browser Launcher. Prior to joining The Intercept, Micah worked as a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
We wrote about the importance of the Tails operating system to all of the NSA journalists last week, but there’s also another little-known operating system that journalists should consider using if they find themselves in high-risk scenarios. It’s called Qubes. I've only been using Qubes for a few weeks, …
One of the big questions that will inevitably come up as media organizations consider adopting SecureDrop, our new open-source whistleblower submission system, is: How secure is it? We should make one thing clear off the top: any organization or product that promises 100% security is not telling the …
The stories of how NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden first contacted journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras (both Freedom of the Press Foundation board members), and how he communicated with the Washington Post's Barton Gellman, have given the public a rare window into digital security and conversing online in the age …
