Jeffrey Goldberg
Security and Privacy
Biography
Jeffrey Goldberg followed the old-school path of academic to Unix system administration and information security and privacy. He brings his familiarity with things as disparate as Linguistics, Behavioral Decision Making, Statistical Inferencing, and more to trying to help people have more control over their data. He also never passes up an opportunity to either teach or learn.
- Security & Privacy
- Mathematics History
- Cognitive Science
- Linguistics & Anthropology
PhD (not completed) Linguistics, 1987
Stanford University
BA Linguistics, 1984
University of California, Santa Cruz
Skills
I’ve developed apps or components in Go, Rust, Python, C, R
Objective-C, Java, Kotlin in addition to above
Typescript, Javascript in addition to the above
I have taught C and Unix utilities
Not a cryptographer, but can read many primary sources
Advised and encouraged practices that lead to more secure code
Not only can I compute p values, I know when not to use them.
Have produced complicated documents using LaTeX and am the author of several LaTeX packages.
Make, git, etc; GitHub actions
Experience
- Assisted in Security design of OPVault format (introduced 2012)
- Assisted in Security design of 1Password service (introduced 2015)
- Managed team responsible for all aspects of product and organization security (2013–2022)
- Developed internal and external security documentation
- Developed first security manual and incident response plan
- Reviewed code (Rust, Go, Swift, Typescript, Kotlin, Java, Objective-C)
- Primary developer of SRP and password generator modules
- Installed and managed network services for small and medium sized enterprises
- Linux and FreeBSD system setup, firewalls (m0n0wall, iptables), mail transport (exim, sendmail, UW imapd, spamassassin)
- Cranfield University (UK) was among the very first UK universities to enable staff and students to create personal web pages.
- Taught Introduction to C Programing to Masters students in the Applied Mathematics and Computing Department (Autumn 1999)
- Set up and managed email system (exim, uw-imapd)
- Trained staff and students in web technology, PGP, and \LaTeX
- Assisted information officer in developing and maintaining university website
- Unix system (OSF, Linux) administration, DNS (bind), NTP, general scripting
- Taught Syntax and Computing in Theoretical Linguistics Department
- Unix system administration work
Recent Posts
When it’s best to attack first
During the Cold War, before the day of the ABM treaty, the situation between the United States and the Soviet Union was extremely dangerous, as each country was coming close to acquiring what was called “First strike capability”. If you had first strike capability it meant that you could launch a surprise “first strike” on the enemy which would be so devastating that they could do little harm to you in retaliating. If the your enemy had first strike capability, that would mean that they could launch a surprise attack against you that would be so devastating that you could not effectively retaliate.
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