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🗓️ 26 January 2024
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We live in a golden age of data. Every day, hacktivists release terabytes of data on sites like DDoSecrets, but sorting through it all requires some technical knowledge. What if you don’t know XML from SQL let alone how to write a simple Python script?
Micah Lee is the director of information security for The Intercept and he’s on Cyber today to talk about his new book: Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations. The book is a manual for people who want to learn how to parse and organize hacked datasets. It also contains stories of how Lee and others handled famous cases such as Blueleaks, neo-Nazi Discord chat rooms, and the Parler leak. If you’re not interested in diving into corporate or government secrets, you might learn something about how to protect your own data.
Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data
Stories discussed in this episode:
How to Authenticate Large Datasets
Tech Companies and Governments Are Censoring the Journalist Collective DDoSecrets
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0:00.0 | Tadmin's got the code it's going to launch. |
0:10.7 | It's a unit system. |
0:13.1 | I know this. |
0:15.1 | It's how all the files are the old park. |
0:17.3 | It tells her everything. |
0:19.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:21.8 | Eagle one. |
0:22.6 | The package is being delivered. |
0:28.5 | So I live with, my wife is a software engineer. |
0:33.1 | Everybody interact with every day as a software engineer, like in my normal life. |
0:38.3 | And we're pulling through this. |
0:39.5 | They were pulling through this book being like, oh, this is really good. |
0:42.8 | Yeah, you have to internalize all of this so we can stop answering your questions. |
0:48.3 | You can, you know, write your own Python scripts, et cetera, et cetera. |
0:52.6 | Will you introduce yourself and tell us about the book we're here to discuss today? |
0:58.0 | Yeah. |
0:58.8 | I am Micah Lee. |
1:01.2 | I work as the Director of Information Security at the Intercept. |
1:05.4 | And I just published my first book called Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations, the art of analyzing hacked and leaked |
1:11.7 | data. It's basically a, it's like a technical book, and the goal is to teach journalists, but also |
1:19.9 | researchers and activists and people who are looking for a new hobby or whatever, how to analyze |
1:25.2 | the floods of hack and leaked data that are getting leaked on the |
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