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Screaming into the Void

2024: The Year I Started Resisting The Formation Of The Surveillance State

2024: The Year I Started Resisting The Formation Of The Surveillance State

2024 was a year I stopped worrying and started to take concrete actions to resist the the corrosion of our digital right to privacy.

Assembly Summer 2024 CTF Write-Up

Assembly Summer 2024 CTF Write-Up

This is my write-up for the Assembly Summer 2024 CTF . I got a water bottle!

Why Encryption Matters And How To Protect It Right Now

Why Encryption Matters And How To Protect It Right Now

This is a post that outlines why I think encryption in important, why it's under threat in Europe and what you can do about it.

The Hidden News Stories You're Not Supposed To Be Reading

The Hidden News Stories You're Not Supposed To Be Reading

News you're not supposed to read about technology you're not supposed to use.

Searching for Mr.Canal+

Searching for Mr.Canal+

Do you have a memory no one else can verify or recall but you can't let go of? I've searched for an ad I saw on television over 20 years ago that no one else remembers.

The Propaganda Campaigns For and Against Online Privacy

The Propaganda Campaigns For and Against Online Privacy

These are the ads that shape the way society sees privacy. I review a few of them.

Reverse Engineering a Childhood Memory

Reverse Engineering a Childhood Memory

I debug a Game Gear game to defeat the T-Rex that has evaded me my entire life.

The Gift of Tagging Something As Conscious

The Gift of Tagging Something As Conscious

In this convoluted blog post I am going to argue that you can give something consciousness with a hashtag.

Climate Activism Needs Strong Encryption To Survive

Climate Activism Needs Strong Encryption To Survive

I'm not going to lie, I'm a paranoid weirdo that sees conspiracies everywhere. That doesn't mean I'm not right though. In this post I ramble on about what I see as the fundamental reasons governments want to curb strong encryption. It's all to do with climate activism.

Reverse Engineering My Soul

Reverse Engineering My Soul

I've spent years wandering around and learning about all kind of subjects without really having any goal in sight. I recently came across a small program that helped me recapture my focus.

This one time I was thinking about mathematics...

This one time I was thinking about mathematics...

A year ago on Pi Day I wrote about how I clawed my way out of mathematical mysticism. Now that mystical thinking is again on the rise, I'm sharing my post from last year.

This one time I started tracking COVID-19 misinformation...

This one time I started tracking COVID-19 misinformation...

The new year has started and I've been actively playing video games pretty much every chance I get when I'm not doing online classes. When I try to crowbar all of that into my normal life it hasn't left me a lot of time

Another Year Gone By

Another Year Gone By

A new year quickly approaches and I try to write at least one more post before the clock runs out. This time all I wanted to do is self-reflect and think about the philosophy of online identity.

So you're wondering what's going on right now...

So you're wondering what's going on right now...

I have now shifted my main site to this boring corporate blog. There is a reason for this, I promise.

Get a Signal Badge

Get a Signal Badge

If Signal can't upkeep itself with voluntary donations, we might as well give up on privacy online altogether.

Let's talk about the Apocalypse

Let's talk about the Apocalypse

I'm running scared reading the news and thinking non-stop about the end of the world. I want to spread the panic.

Frustration, writing and the Corporate Sellout (TM)

Frustration, writing and the Corporate Sellout (TM)

Why does this site now look like every boring corporate blog you find on HackerNews? In this post I talk about how I sold out my principles and learned to love conformity and complacency.

Using Proton Services For Privacy - Should You?

Using Proton Services For Privacy - Should You?

We live in a Privacy as a Service world now. The only way to avoid becoming another data profile to be brokered is to buy into one of any number of privacy services. The Proton ecosystem is the first choice to many, at least it was to me. Does Proton actually guard your privacy though?

The News Upset Me

The News Upset Me

The news upset me, as usual.

A Start To A New Cryptography And Privacy Blog

A Start To A New Cryptography And Privacy Blog

Just trying to start a blog writing about things I find interesting as I solve puzzles and looks for secrets...