Australian-born entrepreneur and hacker. Currently working in advisory and consulting positions, previously at Techcrunch, Omnidrive and a number of other startups since 2000.
Nik has over 15 years of experience as a developer, penetration tester and solutions architect in industries ranging from finance, manufacturing and real estate through to consumer web application development. Nik has worked for and continues to consult and advise startups, SMB’s, venture capital firms and large enterprises including a number of Fortune 100 companies. Nik has worked and lived in Australia, the United Kingdom, South Africa, throughout continental Europe and Asia and is now based in San Francisco, USA.
Nik has contributed to a large number of open-source projects and published a number of security vulnerabilities for various platforms and applications since 1996. Nik is an advocate of consumer privacy and security protection, applying cryptography to all communication, the Tor anonymity network, Bitcoin and a number of other security and privacy related projects and initiatives. In 2007, he was named in The Bulletin magazine as one of Australia’s “”Smart 100″”.
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During and after Twittergate, when a hacker broke into a few hosted
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-18-at-8.54.36-AM-215x181.png" width="215" height="181" />Late last night the popular micro-messaging service <a href="http
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-15-at-12.07.51-AM.png" width="172" height="76" /> The recently released e-book reader from Barnes & Noble, the <a href
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In July of last year, I wrote about <a href="http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/Screen-shot-2009-11-02-at-11.48.54-PM-215x64.png" width="215" height="64" />A large number of customers of <a href="http://www.rackspacecloud.
A new generation of database products and companies is beginning to emerge, and one of the more interesting examples is Swedish-based Neo Technology, the developer and vendor of the neo4j graph based
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/cp_1256623020_32598v1-max-250x250.png" width="164" height="60" /><a href="http://crunchbase.com/company/amazon">Amazon</a> has launched a host
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We received a number of tips early this morning that the majority of
<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/time-donnie-180x180.jpg" width="180" height="180" />When email was first created in 1965 it was used as a method to communicate between time
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<a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a> made a very minor but significant c
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A large number of web services are geographically restricted, such as <a href="http://
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/cp_1254687737_twitter-fail-whale-300x225-215x161.gif" width="215" height="161" />The background debate about whether or not <a href="http://ww