Stuff I write about

VInnie's substack article stack

In the works

• Agency vs Self-Sufficiency - some thoughts.

• Better privacy through Proton

Farmsteading

• Distance from Disorder - Why and how we moved to Arkansas

• Be Water, My friend. - Our first irrigation project at Stella Porta

• The Great Pumpkin Patch Pump - Pumpkin Patch Irrigation project

• Rural Internet - Solar-powered Wi-Fi, StarLink, and Cameras

• The Guest House - Southern Hospitality

• This is my Dirt - The Farmsteading Adventure Begins.

Home/Farm Automation

• Chicken Coop with RaspberryPi

• Chicken Coop with Arduino platform

• Using a Raspberry Pi to measure the cistern level

• A standby power system for a well-pump

Amateur Radio

• Hamming it up - Adventures in Amateur radio

• Friggin in the Riggin - Adventures in Maritime and Aviation radio

• Mayday… - The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)

Search and Rescue

• Rescue Me - Adventures in Search and Rescue

• Woofing in the Woods - Training as a rescue medical professional

• The M part of March - Tourniquet use and training

• Thunderstruck - More than you wanted to know about lightning, much more!

Digital Privacy

• We have always been at war with Cryptography

• Leaving the Apple EcoSystem - We got to get ourselves back to the garden.

• Leaving the Apple Ecosystem - part 2 - Time to Monkey around with it.

• Leaving the Apple Ecosystem - part 3 - The day-to-day apps.

• Leaving the Apple Ecosystem - part 4 - The Unplugged Phone

PiCar - Raspberry Pi Car Radio Project

• Part 1 - Why would anyone sane do this?

• Part 2 - The Hardware.

• Part 3 - 1-wire temperature sensors

• Part 4 - An Overview of the Software

• Part 5 - GPS, or where the heck are we?

• Part 6 - Can you hear me now? - Raspberry Pi Audio.

• Part 7 - Software Defined Radio.

• Part 8 - Who ate all the CPU?

• Part 9 - Play that funky music ...

• PiCar in MagPi Magazine

• Demo Video

• Tech Talk Video

• PiCar Build Notes and GitHub link

Various pieces of hardware I constructed for PiCar

• Rings and Knobs - Rotary encoder and LED rings

• Power Management Part 1 - Safe shutoff switch

• Power Management Part 2 - Turning on the Radio

CAN bus and Hacking your Car Network

• Part 1 - ODB vs. CAN bus,

• Part 2 - Connecting Raspberry Pi to CAN

• Part 3 - Reverse Engineering CAN packets

• Part 4 - Writing code to talk to CAN

• Part 5 - ODB and older cars

Raspberry Pi Client/Server topics

• Part 1 - architecture

• Part 2 - Server Code

• Part 3 - Client Authentication

• Part 4 - Debugging REST with PAW

• SQLite for your Raspberry Pi

• Preventing SQLite Injection attacks

Other Raspberry Pi Topics

• We Want The Airwaves

• Using a Raspberry Pi to Track Aircraft

• BLE on Raspberry Pi

• Dealing with I2C Noise

• Vinnie’s Raspberry Pi Setup

What I do

- Wikipedia removed me, probably because of my politics. (who cares)
I am not a fan of past accomplishments; I care more about what you are doing today.
But If I had to summarize, I would say I am passionate about creating tools that preserve people’s freedom of speech and privacy.

I was an early homebrew computer hacker in the 70s, but I started my professional work around 1982. I worked for companies such as Digital Equipment Corp, Apple Computer, and PGP Corporation, and co-founder of Silent Circle, 4th A Technologies, and ZeroDark.cloud. I was well-known in the cryptography and Cipherpunk worlds until I walked away from Silicon Valley when it turned its focus on censorship and leftist ideals.

Older Stuff

• Verifying Authenticity of Public Keys with BlockChain

• Self-Destructing Data

• Silent Text - from Wayback Machine

• Silent Text Design Notes (GitHub)

Old Videos From ZDC / 4th-A