"Micah Lee, the staff technologist and resident crypto expert at Greenwald’s investigative news site The Intercept. ... After reading about Greenwald’s file tra

"Micah Lee, the staff technologist and resident crypto expert at Greenwald’s investigative news site The Intercept. ... After reading about Greenwald’s file transfer problem in Greenwald’s new book, " Am I missing something, or is this part just an advert for the book? I doubt the office's staff technologist/security_guy first heard about Greenwald's tech security problem from his book. With regard to the technology itself, it looks like this just uses Tor for the file store without ever solving the hard problem: negotiating with the other party. The tough problem here isn't hosting a file; we don't need Tor for that. I could just as easily encrypt a file and serve it up with https://github.com/mikegrb/App-otfile https://github.com/mikegrb/App-otfile. The tough part is getting a key securely to my friend around the world, without being MITMed or having our communication recorded and decrypted.