Articles & Publications

In European Public Mosaic, the journal of the Public Administration School of Catalonia, I reclaim the word hacker from its sensationalist use. I trace its origins, from MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club and the PDP-1 to ARPANET, Wozniak, the Morris worm and Mitnick, and Spanish groups such as !Hispahack and La Vieja Guardia. I argue that hackers are the first line of defence against exponentially growing cybercrime and that public-private collaboration is more necessary than ever.

My background as a hacker →

An academic paper I co-authored with María J. Santofimia, Félix J. Villanueva, Egor Litvinov, Ilia Viksnin and Juan C. López in Procedia Computer Science (vol. 192, KES 2021). We analyse the cybersecurity of smart homes and services for active and healthy ageing: their users may be vulnerable through lack of digital literacy or cognitive impairment, and they are deployed in the most private sphere, the home. There were no specific studies, standards or guidelines for manufacturers, and the paper sets out the issues that need special attention.