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.

Interests

Security & Privacy
Mathematics History
Cognitive Science
Linguistics & Anthropology

Education

PhD (not completed) Linguistics, 1987

Stanford University
BA Linguistics, 1984

University of California, Santa Cruz

Skills

Programming languages

Primary developer of apps, packages, crates

I’ve developed apps or components in Go, Rust, Python, C, R

Contributed code to projects using

Objective-C, Java, Kotlin in addition to above

Reviewed code

Typescript, Javascript in addition to the above

Taught

I have taught C and Unix utilities

Other technical

Cryptography

Not a cryptographer, but can read many primary sources

Secure Development

Advised and encouraged practices that lead to more secure code

Statistical inferencing

Not only can I compute p values, I know when not to use them.

TeX/LaTeX

Have produced complicated documents using LaTeX and am the author of several LaTeX packages.

Unix (software development) tools

Make, git, etc; GitHub actions

Experience

Principal Security Architect, Chief Defender Against the Dark Arts, Support

1Password

April 2010 – June 2023 Remote

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

Freelance system administration

September 2000 – October 2008 Riverside, California; Plano, Texas

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)

Asst. Information Officer, Network Programmer

Cranfield University Computing Centre

April 1994 – June 2000 Cranfield, Beds., UK

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