About me and this blog

It is always good to start off with an introduction, but I guess being a security-conscious person, I try to keep things private unless there is a specific reason to reveal it. So for example, I use this newly created google account registered to a prepaid phone number (but no burner phone!), writing to this blogspot using Tor with cookies always pre-cleared.

But at the very least, here are some basic details about myself which I think are pertinent to this blog:

• I am in my mid-twenties
• I have a bachelor's degree, majoring in Computer Science
• I am working in the cyber security industry (private sector)
• I am in the process of creating a non-security related startup company
• I am interested in investing and have my own investments

And here are what I plan to do with this blog, and my reasons for doing so:

• Educate and provide commentary.
  My primary focus for this blog is cyber security. That means that I will write about topics in cyber security that I happen to think about, in order to explain and comment about them. I used to read a lot of news related to this, but news is just news and I realize there are many things that the authors could have taught me from their articles but they did not.
  But since I am already doing this, I would also sometimes write about what I have learnt from my startup attempt (no specific details). If someday my identity is revealed (actually pretty easy to figure out), I would also write a little about my investments.
• Amalgation of my thoughts
  This blog is not only for you, the reader, but also (mostly) for myself. Throughout my life I have realized that writing your thoughts - even if only about these topics - helps in self-understanding.
• Possibly proof to future employers that I know at least something about cyber security
  After all, everyone needs food on the table.

Let us see where this journey goes.

Disclaimer: Nothing I write here speaks for my employer. What I write here does not necessarily mean that it happened at my workplace.

P.S. I blame blogspot defaults for being so ugly! :)