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I am a freelance journalist with 15 years of experience covering hackers, cybersecurity, surveillance, and other topics.
Half tongue-in-cheek, half dead serious, I describe myself as a real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies.
I am also writing a book about the surveillance tech startup Hacking Team, and the history of government spyware.
I am a freelance journalist with 15 years of experience reporting, writing, and editing blogs, short articles, investigations, and long form features on hackers, cybersecurity, surveillance, and other topics.
Most recently, I was a senior writer and editor at TechCrunch, where I covered those beats. Most of my work was driven by scoops and developing deep sources in the industry. While there, I wrote investigations, long form features, and broke original stories based on my own scoops.
At VICE Motherboard, I focused on long form features and investigations, while still writing shorter news stories and blogs. I also helped create and launch the successful podcast CYBER. I also produced several episodes of the podcast, or participated as a guest, and sometimes as a host. I also developed a new series for the CYBER podcast called My First Hack, where I interviewed prominent hackers and cybersecurity experts on their career beginnings.
In 2020, I was responsible for editing a print 'zine on hacking culture. I worked on the concept and theme of the 'zine, solicited and judged pitches from colleagues, edited the resulting stories, and contributed feedback on the art and layout of the 'zine.
At VICE, I've helped produce several episodes of a TV show on cybersecurity called CYBERWAR, as well as an episode of the VICE HBO show.
I have freelanced for WIRED, MIT Tech Review, Rest of World, and L'Espresso.
Before Motherboard, I worked at Mashable, covering breaking news of all kinds, writing features, and helping research and produce documentaries. Before that, I wrote for WIRED's national security and tech blog Danger Room.
I've been interviewed on NPR's All Tech Considered, Good Morning America, Tech Won't Save Us, the 404 Media podcast, Risky Business, HuffPost Live, and Tech News Today, among others.
I have spoken at several conferences, including Black Hat USA, the International Journalism Festival, and Re:publica.
In 2012, I graduated from Columbia University's Journalism School. Before that, I graduated from the law school at Universitat de Barcelona.
I have spoken with dozens of sources over the years. Some of them have requested I obscure their identity by keeping them anonymous, for several reasons: fear of reprisal, to protect their physical and digital safety, and more.
I take my duty to protect my sources very seriously, and I am always happy to discuss what this may mean for you when we first start talking.
The concepts of "off the record" and "on background" are not intuitive and vary slightly depending on who you ask. If you want to know how I interpret them, it's easier to just have a conversation about how you would want me to use—or not use—the information you are providing me, and whether you want your identity to be revealed or not.