Marek

Meet Opaque, a 32-year-old software engineer born and raised in a totalitarian country where government surveillance is pervasive and freedom of speech is tightly controlled. Growing up, Opaque witnessed the erosion of privacy and the suppression of dissenting voices, which fueled a deep-seated passion for privacy and security. 15 years ago, he emigrated to a […]

Starting programming on a C64 and Linux since 1996, I’ve always had a focus on the network side, security, and protocols, and particularly appreciate the value of P2P protocols as censorship resistance is democracy is liberty, without it whoever controls the narrative controls the votes.

I hack and build stuff – code, text, fiction. I don’t like to be defined by short paragraphs, and I often shift what I work on. Cypherpunk is now.