Hi to the entire Hackliberty community, this is my first message in the forum, I will proceed to introduce myself.
I consider myself a nostalgic of the old good times underground cyberpunk communities since I started in the world of computers in 1987 and around 1992 initiating the world of programming and focusing in security with the virii. Due to the expensive access to internet I changed my direction to the world of phreaking from 1996 until 2002. Once the access to internet was getting cheaper and more accessible, I redirect my interests to low level software security and network security, writing exploits for exploiting buffers overflows, but also contributing in the networking area of some kernels. I still do these contributions professionally by reporting new security issues which becomes CVE for the last 20 years.
My politician ideas were really influenced from my environment from my childhood, my mother was a communist while my father was an anarchist; therefore I became anarchy-communist, especially attached to the mutualism and a person concern about solidarity ideas from Piotr Kropotkin. I noticed I was too focused in the unfair news happening in the world, but too unbalanced, that I decided to study what I was criticizing, then I study all the root ideas from the different ideologies, as well as economy. So I read all the important authors from the root ideas instead of listening what others tell about them. I read Mussolini to understand Fascism, Hitler to understand Nazism, Adam Smith to understand Capitalism, Karl Marx to understand Communism, Bakunin for Anarchism, but then I discovered Libertarianism and I was fascinated how much I was missing from these amazing ideas, then I read many of the relevant people here; John Locke, Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrick Hayek, Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard, Thomas Sowell, Nassim Taleb, etc. So I became liberal libertarian, philosophical anarchist, minarchist which does not legitimate the State.
I also got quite influenced by the Greek philosophers and specially from Eleussian Mysteries events, but also from Mediterranean origin of civilizations such as Persians, Greeks, Roman-Italian and Spanish, but also Egyptian mithology as one of my main interests. I also enjoy dystopian themes from Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. I am an Argonaut interested in psychedelics for changing the perspective of the mindset and alter the routine mindset, especially using LSD. That brought my interest for people such as Ernst Jünger, Albert Hoffmann, Antonio Escohotado, Jonathan Ott and Alexander Shulgin. Recently I also got interested by religious topics, and even I was a convinced atheist right now I changed my mind after read an “Essay of a Man” from Alexander Pope and “The Divine Comedy” from Dante Alighieri and “There is a God” from Antony Flew.
My main core value as a principle is freedom, but I use it in a sense of freedom to look for the truth in order to give the maximum sense of value of it, or how I see the sense to use that freedom and trying to give a meaning for it during my life. So I am willing for a honest talks, open minded leanings, looking for the truth, and constructive interactions which could lead to change myself in any ideas, since this could mean mature those, which is more pleasant than being right; because it means a serious step improvement. So I would love to have these kind of interactions and not just defending one idea just due to the ego with no other reasoning. I am not into destructive, non-honest, non-open minded discussions, toxic interactions, or trying to attack the other person instead of the topic to be discussed. We can be wrong, we may ignore some information, but we must be honest to ourselves. No one pay for our opinions, I do not need to defend them for anything else rather than I truly believe are truth, and if they are not, I must re-think and try to solve the contradictions I may have, or accept the critics and change those ideas if it does not sustain. So I would like to get something from here in that sense as well as give as much as I could in the same way.