Tracesofhumanity.org by Joanna Rutkowska
Key takeaways
- I’ve been silent for the last 7 years and now I’m trying to resurface with this new blog :-)
- Some of you might remember my previous work on Qubes OS1, a paranoid-security OS, which I started back in 2009, and led its development for the next 9 years.
- During my long life as a computer security researcher and architect, I’ve been primarily motivated by the pursuit of Truth (aka Knowledge) as the supreme Value.
I’ve been silent for the last 7 years and now I’m trying to resurface with this new blog :-)
Some of you might remember my previous work on Qubes OS1, a paranoid-security OS, which I started back in 2009, and led its development for the next 9 years. Others might have been readers of my previous blog2, written in the period of 2006-2018, focusing on computer systems security (and insecurity), and specifically on operating systems and virtualization security. Very technical staff, in other words ;) So technical, in fact, that it was easy for me to lose touch with some other aspects of life.
During my long life as a computer security researcher and architect, I’ve been primarily motivated by the pursuit of Truth (aka Knowledge) as the supreme Value. And Freedom. Other transcendentals3, those typically associated with Humanism, I tended to consider to be of a somewhat lesser value.