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After a break from social media I'm back. Same snark, twice the F words. Still loving FOSS, retro tech, and my chickens. Now with a kid in-tow.

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Activist, reverse engineer, fighter for human rights, hacker, hacktivist and cypherpunk. Independent security researcher.

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{ disrupting APT, authoritarian gov, surveillance, privacy violations & corporate injustice }

Irish, 20 years experience in Security, do a bit of everything. Expert in nothing except Powerpoint and fixing broken processes.

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Cybersecurity correspondent for Reuters, covering state-aligned threats, cybercrime, hack-and-leak ops, election security. Also like to talk about UFOs and skateboarding.

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I’m a practicing Catholic, husband and father, Midwest transplant in California, and software engineer. Posts are generally about philosophy, politics, social issues, parenting, and tech.

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An a/c to announce, explain and discuss "muddle"

"muddle" is a "deniable encryption" scheme which I discovered (and maybe invented).
It is the combination of "Online Codes," a so-called "fountain code", and Rivest's concept of "Chaffing and Winnowing". The two are trivial to combine, producing something that seems to have good potential for privacy, deniable encryption and secure dispersal and recovery of files across distributed networks.
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Hello :) Im Andrew and I am currently a freshman at Oregon state studying cybersecurity. Im really interested in open source software and astrophysics.