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Massive leak exposes records of 41,000 DHS workers, including undercover agents

Commenting on the legal limits of anti-doxing law

On October 28, the transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets published Icepick, a searchable archive of more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors. The files hold names, work phone numbers, office addresses, job titles, supervisors, and the internal permissions tied to each account.

Updated Oct 31

Notable Quotes

"This is information that would be on a business card. That's not something the government can criminalize."

from Massive leak exposes records of 41,000 DHS workers, including undercover agents · Updated Oct 31

"This is information that would be on a business card" — Adam Steinbaugh, FIRE senior attorney

from Massive leak exposes records of 41,000 DHS workers, including undercover agents · Updated Oct 31