Chris KubeckaWoohoo, finally able to recover my Mastodon account after almost two years or something. A lot has happened in that time!
Got recruited by US Secretary of State, got fired by Secretary of War due to a Trump Presidential Executive order
Published an awesome hacking in a post quantum cryptographic world academic article that was used in a Trump EO after I was fired
Wrote 3 books, on drones, Russia's drone doctrine leaked & translated and How to Hack a Modern Dictatorship with AI The Digital CIA/OSS Sabotage Manual.
The Cuban government gave me the title of Cyber Fascist & tried to blame me personally for hacking the Venezuelan electrion results🤣 turning this into a t-shirt or something
Healed from my Ukraine injuries, I can walk normal again which is great!
Started sharing, writing about some of my cases, espionage, cyberwar, & corruption on my new substack & got to interview a dinosaur & amazing OSINT researchers that help Ukraine & uncover election fraud, Russian misinformation networks, animal abuse, corruption in Bulgaria & the Balkans
Was on a panel in Bucharest next to Romanian & Ukrainian Cyber heads as representing the ethical hackers helping Ukraine #BCC2025 & was kinda the voice of #BCC2024 after movie
Helped with multiple foreign election interference cases in the Balkans/EU
Interviewed/profiled by @DIEZEIT twice
Ethically Hacked a few authoritarian governments...purely for research purposes
Co-wrote academic articles on cyberwar, drone, hybrid warfare & cryptolinguistics
Got screwed by a few companies, one of the many challenges of being a small business owner
Officially got my press credentials
Romania gave me the title of The Hackress, totally rolling with that one
Focusing as much as possible on using tech for good
Presented at the Romanian Parliament twice
Got hassled like other misinformation researchers by Russia... Must be doing something good!
Survived a shitty Russian backed defamation/slander campaign by a German "cyber expert" who runs a think-tank with dubious funding, married to a Russian and likely write his own Wiki page
Made loads of new friends, in a new Herman essayist/poet book as a tech Cassandra
Loving life!
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