From 2008 to 2010, I ran a blog that had a small following with 1-2 thousand hits a month. I stopped only due to my employer’s publication and social media restrictions. While the restrictions had always been in place, I had justification to post due to my academic research. Unfortunately, that justification went away when I finished my Ph.D. in 2010. Sadly, I had to let it die.

I am now free of those restrictions and excited to announce my return to blogging. Instead of WordPress/Blogspot/etc, I will be doing things a little bit differently:

• For durability and archiving, I will be putting all of my posts on the Steem blockchain.
• My posts will be available via blog.carback.us using @almost-digital’s fabulous Selfsteem app.
• Comments will be provided by FinallyComments.

Over the coming weeks, I will be re-posting the most popular blog posts from my archive. After that, expect posts on digital currency, machine learning, CRISPR, and all manner of miscellaneous topics that interest me.

About Me

Generally speaking, I am a technologist that builds secure, reliable, and scalable software. Some would call me a cryptographer, but at best I would say I am a cryptographic system or security engineer. I am currently working on digital freedom technologies and computational biology. You can check my LinkedIn and AngelList profiles for more information.

Before these, I was a technical co-founder for Lexumo, a startup that built a big data platform for tracking known vulnerabilities in open source software, which folded for business reasons in August 2017. Before Lexumo, I led an embedded systems security group focused on government R&D, implemented unhackable voter-verifiable election systems, and generally spent my time designing, analyzing, and building in computer security. You can learn more at my personal website.

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