Me In My Glasses
Daniel C. Silverstein
I once thought I was a hacker.
Lately, I think of myself as just a hack.
I build things. I like to understand and work with complex systems. I endeavour to develop technologies that positively impact society at large, write code that advances the state of the art, and accelerate the growth of a sensible, fair, and rich intellectual property ecosystem.

What's gone before

Work

Packet Clearing House
Contributed to the implementation of global anycast ccTLD and DNS Root hosting platform. Helped grow the Internet, one exchange point at a time.
Skotos Tech, Inc.
Built and maintained mazes of twisty little passages, all alike for folks to explore together.
Adjectivity, Inc.
Designed and implemented forward thinking application framework for wireless phones before the world was ready for it. Made some mistakes and learned many valuable lessons for the next startup.
SmartTouch, Inc.
As a summer intern, wrote a desktop application for viewing log files using Java's Swing windowing toolkit.

School

University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science
Computer Science Undergraduate Association
Officer, active member and alumnus
Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Symbolic Programming, Machine Structures
Berkeley Intellectual Property Weblog
Co-founder and contributor

Elsewhere

DEFCON 11, CFP 2004
Discussed electronic voting security insights gleaned from analysis and exploitation1 of the system used in the 2003 Associated Students of the University of California student government elections.
Black Rock City, NV
Part-time resident, and full-time participant since 2002

Contact

My PGP Key has the fingerprint:
1024D/4096g 0x4F5F5237 50C5 EBD4 5647 1E75 8970 42E6 0F9C 7001 4F5F 5237
  1. 1My colleagues and I contacted election officials prior to the elections, and worked with them to mitigate the flaws we found.