Hacking · Quid

Nowadays, for most people, a hacker is a programmer. This definition is not entirely accurate. A hacker is before everything an individual who seeks to solve problems, sometimes complex, by finding the simplest possible way. Hacking is -above all- about being innovative and creative whenever a problem has to be solved. Computer languages ​​are therefore tools and not the very function of the hacker.

Note that hackers often have a pejorative image, mainly due to media that tend to mix up crackers and hackers. Hacking is a culture, or even a society made ​​up of clans, whose common values ​​are "open source", "net neutrality", democracy and of course a fairly libertarian view of society, whereas crackers are often wannabe hackers who use existing applications to break into systems. To quote Eric S. Raymond, hackers build things while crackers break them.

(Main) Interests

Certainly due to my training as a microeconomist, the vast majority of my works as a hacker tend to share a common denominator, id est human interactions within online environments. I'm especially interested in two dimensions of the latter interactions. The first dimension is mostly quantitative and has to do with interactions' flows occurring online while the second dimension is more qualitative and deals with the intrinsic features of e-interactions. To be concise and less abstractly, (i) I think of and develop systems that encourage and improve trust online (also known as eTrust) -a crucial determinant of every human interaction- and (ii) I create and modify user interfaces of online platforms seeking so to increase the productivity attached to every interaction.

Core Values

At the risk of sounding both naive and simplistic, I firmly believe that the Internet represents one of the most efficient means to deal with present and future challenges faced by the Human society as long as we encourage, guarantee and develop an Internet that is open and neutral.

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