About Us
What We Do
Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) is a non-profit that specializes in publishing, archiving and analyzing leaked and hacked datasets, while protecting sources. It is the world's largest public library of previously secret information.
Emma Best
Emma is the co-founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets, as well as a journalist and transparency advocate who has filed thousands of FOIA requests with government agencies and written hundreds of articles in MuckRock, Property of the People, Motherboard, Gizmodo, Unicorn Riot and others. They work with data submissions and analysis.
Maggie Mayhem
Maggie Mayhem is an activist for sex worker rights, harm reduction, and reproductive justice. She had formerly served on the Board of Directors for the Sex Worker Outreach Project-USA.
Bonaventure
Freelance writer and archivist. Believer in truth, integrity, and that there's got to be better tomorrows out there. Old school, but it sure didn't feel like that at the time. He/him.
Glenn Sorrentino
Glenn is the Executive Director of Science & Design, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit product development organization in the United States, and serves on the Board of Advisors to Distributed Denial of Secrets. His career has focused on product design, working with companies including Fortune 500s, startups, design agencies, and the civic space. He has contributed to open-source tools, including Hush Line, Signal, OnionShare, and CalyxOS. Glenn is a USMC veteran and military whistleblower.
Micah Lee
Micah is a security engineer, a software developer, a journalist, and the author of Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data. He used to be the director of infosec at The Intercept, and he did OPSEC for journalists while Snowden was leaking NSA docs to them.
Milo Z. Trujillo
Milo is a systems scientist who studies intentional communities and the co-influence of technological design and social policy on group behavior. In DDoSecrets, Milo serves as an academic liaison with research labs, aids in computational social science research, and writes software and administers servers as needed for the collective's goals.
Delfin Mocache Massoko
Mocache Massoko is the founder and editor of Diario Rombe, publishing stories about corruption and money laundering in Equatorial Guinea since 2012. Transparency International called him a key witness during an anti-corruption trial in France against a member of the regime. He collaborated with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on Pandora Papers, and with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project on Suisse Secrets. Diario Rombe led research on GQLeaks in 2022, a set of more than one million emails from Equatorial Guinea’s national center for the digitalization of public administration.
Annalise Burkhart
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Brassy
Brassy is an agender, no-adjectives anarchist. They've been doing cyber in the background for a good long while and prefer to keep their lips tight about their other escapades.