Who am I? |
For the past three or four years now I've led something of a double life.
By day, I'm a reverse engineer and developer at Riverbed Technology. There, I'm part of a small team that reverse engineered and accelerates the Microsoft Exchange email protocol, but the company does much more than that, and I feel pretty safe saying I'm surrounded by some of the brightest engineers on the planet. It's actually a pretty neat place. Not evil (yeah, actually for reals), not (too) corporate, very fun staff, etc.
But, by night, I do basically whatever I can to help improve privacy, security, censorship resistance, and the ability for people to opt-out (if only temporarily) of the massive surveillance apparatus that is now the modern Internet.
I work extremely hard at the things that are important to me, but at the same time, I don't believe in taking anything too seriously, and have a pretty cavalier outlook towards life in general.
I also refuse to create a facebook account, a flickr account, a livejournal account, a twitter account, and generally join the web 2.0 party. It makes me sad in a way, because I really like parties, and I also really like new technology, but the astounding amount of personal information these places collect, sell, and use to target their users with ads and profiling is just too much for me.