About Me
Hello and welcome to Perilous Tech, a blog focused on occasional thoughts at the intersection of technology, privacy, and humanity. I’m Nathan, a veteran researcher leading the fundamental and applied research team at a global security company and a former Associate Professor at UAT. Throughout my 25+ year career, I’ve focused on issues of software security, product security, and emerging technologies, as well as investigating the impact of social technologies. I’ve discovered vulnerabilities in major products, identified new attack vectors, and built security tools. I’m also a bit of a creative, spending time in the music industry and working on my own art.
For over twenty years, I’ve presented at conferences around the globe on a variety of topics. For the past fifteen, I’ve served on the review board for Black Hat, evaluating research for inclusion in conferences worldwide. I’m currently the track lead for the AI, ML, and Data Science track.
I mainly write this blog for myself. I’m a firm believer in writing to refine your ideas (I write every day). However, you’ll see I post very little. The posts that I do share, I hope spur ideas and food for thought. I’m concerned about the impacts of technology on humanity and spend much of my time thinking about that. These are thorny issues that can be easy to get wrong in hindsight.
I’m not providing medical advice. Use as directed.
Contact, Appearances, and Podcasts
If you would like to contact me, you may do so on Social Media or by filling out the form on the Contact page. I also speak at events and make podcast appearances. If you are interested in these, please contact me, and we can chat. Thank you.
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Why a WordPress Blog and not <insert platform here>?
As I said, this content is mostly for myself. I’m not trying to monetize the content. I also feel that some of these platforms can be transitory, and I like the thought of owning my own content. I can choose to do what I want with it. Sure, I may be sacrificing visibility for my ownership, but I’m fine with that.
100% Human
The insights and writing on this site are 100% human. I don’t use AI text generation tools to help write posts, and I don’t use tools like ChatGPT to help refine my thoughts on topics. My thoughts are refined through reading, writing, and revision. The only AI-generated content on this site are some of the images used in posts and featured images.
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