Once upon a time, a king carried by his slaves wanted to cross a rope bridge. He called all his slaves and asked, "Is it safe? Someone go ahead and cross."

All but one stared at each other and began to point and say, "Your excellency, send him, he is wisest and can tell you if it is safe." Each poor slave pointed at another, and another. Finally, one said, "Let me go across, sire."

Having crossed the bridge, he cut the rope.

My resume is available, and I am particularly interested in consulting or contract work which can be conducted remotely, or of limited duration, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area. I can also provide highly competent and self directed technical and marketing personnel on a contract basis for interesting projects anywhere in the world -- please email me if you would like to discuss this (primary focus is security and network/distributed systems specialists).

I am currently working on several exciting projects, including:

• Global distributed server colocation and management, through metacolo
• Global, distributed, anonymous electronic payment infrastructure using advanced cryptographic techniques and network design
• Secure messaging and communications systems, slated for a major deployment in 2004

In the past few years, when not on Sealand, I've spoken at DEFCON 8, 9, 10, DNSCON 2000, 2600 H2K2, Jupiter MediaMetrix/Billboard Plug-in Europe, HAL2001, ACM Reflections/Projections, RSA Conference, and explored London, Paris, and Amsterdam, among other things. I'd be happy to speak at other conferences, if my schedule permits -- gratis if it's a conference I'd otherwise attend, or for expenses and a fee, depending on when, where, and what kind of event.

I'm now a member of the EFF, IEEE, and ACM; I'm considering joining the ACLU, GOA, Public Knowledge, IACR, AAAS, and FAS.