[psysec] Introduction

[der Mouse]

> Even though I think that these introductions may be a form of social
> engineering on the part of Gadi to get us to divulge our information
> I will still join in the fun. :-)

Could be, but I personally have so much of who I am already out there
on the public Internet that I think the benefit to me from a brief
self-introduction outweighs the risks. :)

My primary self-identification is as a fairly hardcore computer geek.
I've been one since I first got to use a computer (1975? some time
around then).  I am unconventional, these days, in my use of computers;
in particular, the Web is difficult and unpleasant for me to use, and I
don't do it much.  As a consequence, I don't have a bunch of eye-candy
webpages to point you at - I have an anonymous FTP area, whose content
is also served up over HTTP by bozohttpd, but that's about as close to
a personal website as I have.  (ftp.rodents-montreal.org, for the
curious.)  In computers, my primary talents are programming and
debugging, though for intellectual-"property" reasons I've made my
career as a sysadmin rather than a programmer or debugger.

There are, of course, a lot of other things I am and do.  Almost all of
them are irrelevant to security, and most are irrelevant to psychology;
I am, however, fascinated by people and how they act.  And a
substantial part of my computer knowledge and skill is security-related
one way or another.  Between the two of those, I don't think I'm too
bad a fit for the list.  Gadi appears to agree enough to let me in
here, and who am I to say him nay? :)

If anyone has any specific questions for me, feel free to ask.  (I
don't promise to answer, of course, but you're welcome to ask. :)

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