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I don't post much personal stuff on this blog, but I probably should have mentioned that I moved to San Francisco back in December to join the mobile team at Uber! Superpumped to be here. (p.s., we're hiring!)
Back in my hometown, the Seattle City Council is talking about effectively shutting down uberX and other rideshare services. Below is the letter I sent Councilmember Mike O'Brien describing both why I think Uber is important for Seattle, and why I decided...

During the 2013 campaign, I asked "Socialist Alternative" Seattle City Council candidate Kshama Sawant for a clarification of her position regarding "corporate welfare" via Twitter, and ended up sparking a contentious debate. I sent her the following...

I was guest on the October 5th GeekWire Radio show talking about the NSA spying revelations.
This is the second GeekWire show I've participated in along with my friend Dave Peck from Cloak and Christopher Budd from TrendMicro. The previous show was back in April discussing digital security and privacy more generally....

Last year I worked with a group of people to set up a GSM cell network at the second Toorcamp, a hacker camping conference on the Washington coast. My responsibilty was to procure SIM cards that would allow phones to connect with our network.
While researching SIM cards, I learned that small apps ("applets") can be loaded onto the cards and executed separately from the phone's processor and OS. Recently at DEF CON 21 I gave a presentation with Karl Koscher about our experience working with...