Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations

10 BLUELEAKS EXPLORER

In some ways, I spent the summer of 2020 like many other Americans. I mostly stayed at home, avoiding COVID-19 like the plague it is; I spent far too many hours doom-scrolling through social media feeds; and occasionally I put on an N95 mask, grabbed some hand sanitizer, and hit the streets to protest the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless other Black Americans. But I also spent much of that summer writing code that would make it easier for me and other journalists at The Intercept to make sense of the sprawling BlueLeaks dataset.

My efforts culminated in a piece of open source software, which I released as part of this book, called BlueLeaks Explorer. BlueLeaks Explorer is a web application ...