07-12, 17:00–17:50 (US/Eastern), Marillac Auditorium
The world is awash with hacked and leaked datasets from governments, corporations, and extremist groups. In many cases they're freely available online and waiting for anyone with an Internet connection, a laptop, and enough curiosity to analyze them. Using real hacked and leaked data as examples, Micah will go over how to investigate datasets yourself. You'll see secret docs showing cops spying on Black Lives Matter protesters, read chat logs leaked from a Russian ransomware gang, learn how to analyze GPS coordinates hidden in video metadata that Trump supporters accidentally uploaded to Parler while storming the Capitol, and peak behind the curtain of a WHOIS privacy service used by extremist sites like the Oath Keepers and 8chan. All of this work comes from Micah's new book Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations.
[He'll also be doing a workshop specifically on the BlueLeaks dataset of hacked law enforcement documents, and signing books!]
Micah Lee is a hacker, a software engineer, an investigative journalist, and the author of Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations. He used to be the director of infosec at The Intercept, and now he's an independent consultant working on cool projects.
