BenjaminGittins

Technical background

Cryptography, Digital circuit design, Networks, ISDN / SS7 telephony at protocol level, printer protocol emulation, embedded micro development.

I currently manage a cryptographic project.

Wider interests

I am passionate about distributed decentralised systems with no system-wide single point of trust failures, large-scale object-orientated analysis and design, and robust high availability systems.

Websites I manage

• http://synaptic-labs.com
  • http://www.synaptic-labs.com/resources/streaming-videos/sll-cybersecurity-series.html

Diffusing the Nuclear Threat

As of 2009 there are no studies that estimate the risk of the current approaches to nuclear weapons. A preliminary risk analysis by Martin Hellman indicates that the risk we face and found that it was equivalent to having your home surrounded by thousands of nuclear power plants. There is a real need for formal in-depth studies to be performed. Learn more by visiting http://nuclearrisk.org.