Software developer in Washington, DC (Herndon, VA specifically)

Doing #govtech, #cybersecurity python, dotnet, aws, mostly Infrastructure as Code and cloud apps.

I tweet about software, programming, #python, dad jokes, DC, Fed government tech contracting

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🔑 Usable Security (USec) & Authentication Research
💼 USec Consultant @ Vodafone | Adjunct Professor
Past: Meta, H-BRS, TH Köln.
🎓 Dr.-Ing. (Ruhr University Bochum) | CISSP

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#Science #Security #Privacy #InfoSec #DevSecOps #UX #HCI #WebDev #Password #FIDO2 #WebAuthN #DataScience #UsableSecurity #Data #fedi22 #searchable

Cryptographic & Security Engineering

Previously: Founding & Lead iOS Engineer @signalapp, @Bellingcat #OSINT contributor

Tooting on all things #cryptography, #lithography, #energy, #security, #mobility, #climate, European #aerospace and federalism.

#Autorin · #Podcasting · #Datenschutz- & #ITSecurity-#Awareness · #DigitaleInklusion · #Fediverse · ViennaWriter's Blog & Podcast · #TheDinerPodcast · #DatenschutzPodcast 2018-23 · PrivacyWeek 2016-21 · #SolarpunkSpace · #DesperateHousehackers · #PaulaKrimi · #NaUndDasBuch · #WomenInTechBook · Adminette von literatur.social & litera.tools

Languages: Deutsch, English, un peu Français; lite Svenska & 이제 막 한국어를 배우기 시작했어요.

Lives in The Netherlands, EU. Works as self-employed tech consultant & software developer. Likes to tinker & has way too many interests :)

Likely to toot in NL/EN/DE on:
#technology #techpolicy, #opensource #openstandards #opencontent #publicdomain #creativecommons #copyright #sustainability #diy #infosec #security #data #privacy #accessibility #ui #ux #interactiondesign #ethics #webdevelopment #devops #sysadmin #climatecrisis #food #music #linux #debian #ubuntu

Toots vanish after 3 months

Old school IT Technician and Cyber Janitor.
Interests in InfoSEC, History, Physics and SciFi.

Anti-fascist. Wacky Improvisation and Drive by Philosophy Specialist.

The header image is a panaroma photograph of the view from the summit of Eryri on a clear sunny day. That's rare enough to be noteworthy 🙂

My avatar is a high resolution scan of a 120 film negative version of my portrait. You're not missing anything of artistic merit.

Just doing my undue diligence.

ISP vet (was AS7782, now AS8047), password cracker (Team Hashcat), security demi-boffin, YubiKey stan, public-interest technologist, AK license plate geek. Husband to a philosopher, father to a llama fanatic. Views his.

Day job: Enterprise Security Architect for an Alaskan ISP.

Obsessed with security keys:
techsolvency.com/mfa/security-keys

My 2017 #BSidesLV talk "Password Cracking 201: Beyond the Basics":
youtube.com/watch?v=-uiMQGICeQY&t=20260s

Followed = probably stole you from someone I respect.

Blocked inadvertently? Ask!

Am I following a dirtbag? Tell me!

Suggestions welcome!

Photo: White 50-ish man w/big forehead, short beard, & glasses, grinning by a display of Alaskan license plates.

Boosts not about security ... usually are.

Banner: 5 rows of security keys in a wall case.

#NonAIContent

#hashcat #Alaska #YubiKeys #LicensePlates

P.S. I hate advance-fee scammers w/heat of 400B suns

❤️:⚛👨‍👩‍👧🛡🙊🌻🗽💻✏🎥🍦🌶🍫!

Musician, IT maestro, and #law nerd. Tech manager at a bit of the University of #Edinburgh. Opinions are my own; boosts/favourites != endorsement. #Jewish and secular. Occasionally GM7OMZ.

Profile pic: me looking happy on a beach near West Kilbride, pointing cheesily at the camera.

Header pic: Aberdour harbour looking calm and peaceful.

Live in #Edinburgh, grew up in #Brighton, lived in #Manchester and #London.

#Scotland #UK #LiveMusic #Percussion #HamRadio #Tech #RetroTech #infosec

Privacy advocate 〱 Malware analyst 〱 Cybersecurity
〰️ ⁠InfoSec 〰️ ⁠DFIR 〰️ ⁠CISSP 〰️ ⁠黑客 〰️ ⁠Katzenmädchen
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【 Professional Computer Booper 】
Even my brain has certs (asd,adhd,...)
Gender: a threat model (they/them/idc)

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#Android #BLM #CatSalad #CyberSecurity #Developer #DFIR #fedi22 #GAYINT #Hacker #InfoSec #Malware #Privacy #Puns #Python #Security #tfr #Tor #TransRights #Unicode #Veilid #ಠ_ಠ #ʘ‿ʘ meow :3

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Anti-DEI is white supremacy. Black lives matter. LGBT+ rights are human rights. Healthcare, security, a decent income, and housing with dignity are human rights. Abortion is healthcare. Science is our best hope. Kindness and empathy are the noblest of human traits.

It can ALWAYS get worse.

He/him.

#npfp

pfp: A fluffy dog in a Panama hat (credit heyheymomo)

banner: Gatsby the Pomeranian looking at a classic Porsche with his sticker on it.

Geek | Privacy | Security | My personal toots | Adviseur bij Privacy Company | Leef de cyber, anders leeft de cyber jou

Hacker. kind of, taking care of security in critical infrastructure.
Woodworker as a hobby.
overall overlord (provisional) of @milliways

German expat living in Holland. Hackerspace @pixelbar and CCC

Toots in en, de and een kleine beetje nederlands

Born at 330PPM CO2. Fuck Nazis, everywhere.

The private team of mc.fly toots here...

Waarom zit ik zo veel op Mastodon?

Hobbyfotograaf: Pixelfed: @harld

Autodelete alles na 1 maand.

#Netzpolitik, #DSGVO, #Datenschutz und #Informationssicherheit
@datenkanal, @radioinsecurity, tfr

Amateur professional #selfhost sysadmin. Professional amateur #cloud #security at #AWS. Also fond of #cats, #cigars, #whiskey and #pipes. I like board games and some video games. I am #covid cautious and I still #wearamask. Opinions are my own, but they can be yours too. 100% Organic:,No artificial colors, preservatives, or intelligence added.

Assistant professor of system and software security @UGent (Ghent University, Belgium). Security, protections, compilers, system software, operating systems. 🍨🔭🏔️🦊💚🏳️‍🌈

Addressing #climatechange through data driven methods in #ecology #remotesensing #phenology #foodsecurity

#rstats developer | #academic omnivore | move fast and fix things | personal account | #politics, #science & #foss software | account with amnesia | he / him | ✊ 🍉

There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
- Leonard Cohen

#Datacenter #Pictures #Mac #Linux #Arduino #PHP #Privacy #SpaceX and #Security as well as http://naked-music.com. Ex-Host of Webmontag Hamburg #wmhh. AS12731. 💉³+1

"There is no sanctum or honor among technophiles."

Creator of the Wyng backup system. Lifelong student of the personal computing condition (and human one as well).

#wyng #infosec #pcs #containers #vm #hypervisor #microkernel #backups #storage #linux #qubes #python #foss #oshw

Intellectual (Non practicing, Lapsed)
Mostly Harmless.
Biological.
NB
Kaurna land.
Autodidact, Polymath, Honoris Causa Ignoramus.
#AI #Infosec #Consciousness
Prefigurative Social & Technological Innovation enthusiast
(#SocialInnovation, #TechForGood, #SystemicChange, #EthicalAI)

#REGULATEAI !

"Humans are the larval form of AI"
- me

"Only thing that stops a bad guy with an AI...
Is a good guy with an AI."
- me

"I fight for the user."
- Tron

Webby: https://dodgy.link/ is very dodgy.

Header art:
Luv, a replicant from the beautiful movie "Blade runner 2049", is having her nails done...
... simultaneously she rains death onto bandits with heavy ordinance from a drone through her augmented reality glasses.

Avatar:
Motif from a SA Amalgamated Metal Workers union banner.
South Australian Museum.
United, the workers,
will never be defeated !