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### About
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<img src="/images/me-libreplanet-2016.png"
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alt="Photo of Mike"
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title="LibrePlanet 2016 Talk 'Restore Online Freedom!'"
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class="inline-img avatar" />
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GPG Fingerprint: `D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05` [\[?\]][gpg]
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Mike Gerwitz is a [free (as in freedom) software][0] [hacker] and activist
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with a focus on user privacy and security.
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While much of his earlier experience focused on web development, most of his
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free time is now spent researching cryptography; compilers; mathematics;
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security and privacy; and various other fields. He also closely follows the
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work of the [Free Software Foundation][0],
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[Electronic Frontier Foundation][3], and other entities devoted to free
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information and free society.
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Mike is the author of [GNU ease.js][easejs]; a member of the
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[GNU evaluation][gnueval] team; holds an administrative role in GNU; and is
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a volunteer for various other aspects of the [GNU Project] and the
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[Free Software Foundation].
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Mike is a [hacker], not a [cracker]---the latter breaks the security of
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systems, while the former expresses playful creativity in their work.
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Outside of his field, Mike enjoys time with his family---including his
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wife and two sons---who keep him very busy and help to keep him sane. Mike
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also has a fascination with a wide range of sciences that he wishes he had
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the time to devote to researching.
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A great deal of information regarding Mike's opinions on various topics can be
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found throughout this website. Much of this site is devoted to his thoughts and
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ramblings on various matters and so will contain material that is subject to
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strong bias; the reader is encouraged to construct his or her own opinions.
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Formal papers contain no such influence without rationale and references.
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Mike may be contacted at mtg at gnu dot org; he does not make use of "social
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media" websites, though he may (or may not) respond to queries on websites
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that he is a member of, and he does host his
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[own GNU Social instance][social].
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(Note: This website itself is free/libre---the source code is available via
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the commit hash links in the footer of various pages and the content is
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licensed for free distribution and, in most cases, modification.)
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[View my résumé.][resume]
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I recently changed GPG keys; see my [key transition statement][keytrans],
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signed with both my [new][keytrans-new] and [old][keytrans-old] keys.
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<span class="attribution">[LibrePlanet 2016 Photo][photo]
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Copyright © 2016 Kori Feener, [CC BY 4.0][ccby]; used
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with permission.</span>
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[0]: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
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[hacker]: https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
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[cracker]: https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
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[GNU Project]: https://gnu.org/
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[Free Software Foundation]: https://fsf.org/
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[3]: http://eff.org/
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[easejs]: https://gnu.org/software/easejs
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[resume]: about/resume
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[gnueval]: https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html
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[photo]: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/session-03-c-ms-png-libreplanet-2016-sessions-ec00/
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[ccby]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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[social]: https://social.mikegerwitz.com/
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[gpg]: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/
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[keytrans]: /about/key-transition.txt
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[keytrans-old]: /about/key-transition.txt.old.asc
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[keytrans-new]: /about/key-transition.txt.new.asc
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