This man is responsible for ensuring that Snowden’s leaks don’t get hacked

In early January, Micah Lee worried journalist Glenn Greenwald’s computer would get hacked, perhaps by the NSA, perhaps by foreign spies. Greenwald was a target, and he was vulnerable. He was among the first to receive tens of thousands of top secret NSA documents from former contractor Edward Snowden, a scoop that eventually helped win the most recent Pulitzer prize. Though Greenwald took precautions to handle the NSA documents securely, his computer could still be hacked. “Glenn isn’t a security person and he’s not a huge computer nerd,” Lee tells Mashable. “He is basically a normal computer user, and overall, normal computer users are vulnerable.” Lee, 28, is the technologist hired in November to make sure Greenwald and fellow First Look Media employees use state-of-the-art security measures when handling the NSA documents, or when exchanging emails and online chats with sensitive information. First Look was born in October 2013, after eBay founder Pierre Omydiar pledged to bankroll a new media website led by Greenwald, with documentary journalists Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill.