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Hi stranger, I welcome you to my personal homepage.

I update this page non regularly, so you are more likely to find outdated and obsolete information here.

I am a normal adult, living in a wonderful town in Germany.

After a nice time on my school, I was forced to do my military services for the germany military. And although I did not like the work there, it gave me insights into both interesting mechanisms and personalities within the army. I do not want to miss this experiences. Since October 2001 I study computer science in Germany. Within Germany there is currently a trend to study computer science, because it bears nice job chances. However, computers have always managed to get my attention, I became first interested in them as I was six years old, later - at the age of nine - I started programming and it worked out quite well for me. Now, at the age of twentyone, and a few hundred thousand lines of code later, I am interested within security research, mainly within the network security field. But I look upon the computer as just another tool to use for the good of humankind, and so it happens I have other interests. Also, I do not like stereotype thinking, so although some people think of me as a 'typical computer geek' (whatever that is anyway), I have a real life and I am a socially fully integrated individual ;-)

I felt my personality well described by this generic essay. It describes a type according to some personality model. Although I do not like such rather arbitrary models, the essay is nice and makes a worthy read.

Occasionally I write articles on random subjects for the free Wikipedia encyclopedia.

picture of myself, taken 2001/08
taken 2001/08
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As always, I appreciate comments and corrections about the content, so feel free to email me at scut@nb.in-berlin.de (pgp key, fingerprint: 5453 AC95 1E02 FDA7 50D2 A42D 427E 6DEF 745A 8E07). If you do not use PGP as of now, please give it a try (Windows, Unix), its really easy to setup. If you like chats, you may want to try to reach me through IRCSNet, which is a small IRC network mainly aimed at security conscious people.