Notices by Micah Lee (micahflee@infosec.exchange)

I made a #TeslaTakedown flyer you can put on put on any parked Tesla you see https://micahflee.com/fight-fascism-and-elon-musk-by-taking-down-tesla/

Help make the Tesla brand toxic. Fight fascism and Elon Musk by taking down Tesla #TeslaTakedown https://micahflee.com/fight-fascism-and-elon-musk-by-taking-down-tesla/

@garybrazzell like I wrote in the post, Tesla is a symbol of fascism now. I don’t blame people for owning them, and if you read the flyer it’s full of education and not shaming. But at the end of the day, people should ditch their symbols of fascism. The Tesla brand will only get worse. If I owned a Tesla and wasn’t paying attention, I would love to get one of these flyers because, at the very least, it’s a heads up

I just wrote a quick blog post about why Substack writers should switch to Ghost! https://micahflee.com/2025/02/not-only-is-substack-right-wing-broligarchy-garbage-its-way-more-expensive-than-ghost/

Tesla sales down 37.9% in Norway, 63.4% in France, 75.4% in Spain https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musks-toxicity-could-spell-disaster-for-tesla/

@DroidPort @feld sorry, what are you referring to? Do you have examples of e.g. Trump acknowledging that immigrants or trans people have done good for US?

The Right's big tent politics is based around shared hatred of LGBTQ people, immigrants, diversity initiatives, "elites", etc. It's based on lies and disinformation. They never acknowledge anything good about their enemies.

@DroidPort @feld talking with Vance would have been worthless. The tech billionaires are not going to regulate tech. The problem with the Dems isn't that they didn't talk to Vance, it's that they don't have spines or any real convictions. Still better than fascism though

@feld @DroidPort uh, why would having someone meet with a fascist VC tech bro with Peter Thiel backing have been a good thing for anti-trust?

@feld @DroidPort this is entirely true. It doesn't make Proton praising the fascist party as being the party of anti-trust any better.

@DroidPort

"Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses."

Dems sucked, but this is obviously nonsense right-wing propaganda considering that all of Big Tech is on team MAGA, and they fired Lina Khan, the only hope for actual anti-trust reform.

Also, promising to be "politically neutral" and praising the fascist party while fascism is on the rise is pretty bad.

Proton Mail @protonprivacy claims to be “politically neutral” while praising the Republican Party https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

10 years ago today I published my first Snowden documents! They were about a Canadian/UK spy program called BADASS, where monitored HTTP requests (this was before widespread HTTPS) from ad/analytics libraries in mobile apps to spy on everyone with smartphones https://theintercept.com/2015/01/26/secret-badass-spy-program/

Check it out we just made @cyd open source!!! https://cyd.social/cyd-is-now-open-source/

When you pretend that you know how to use Linux

Today, @ddosecrets published 212GB of chat logs and recordings from paramilitary/militia groups, including Three Percent and Oath Keepers, available for everyone to download https://ddosecrets.com/article/paramilitary-leaks

More about the leak from @ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole

If you have a New Year's resolution to finally ditch X/Twitter/Elon, here is a step-by-step guide for how to do it while still keeping your username, and letting your followers where to find you next https://cyd.social/want-to-quit-x-in-2025-heres-how-to-do-it-the-right-way-with-cyd/ using @cyd

"Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely recorded private conversations that were then sold to third parties for targeted ads." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/apple-agrees-to-pay-95m-delete-private-conversations-siri-recorded/

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Hey check it out there's an article about me and my new project @cyd in Wired! https://www.wired.com/story/x-delete-posts-cyd-micah-lee/

My book HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS: THE ART OF ANALYZING HACKED AND LEAKED DATA is in the Hacking 2024 Humble Bundle!

Get it along with 17 other awesome books. Pay what you want, and the profits benefit @eff.org and ACLU https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-2024-no-starch-books