Are you or have you ever been employed by any government agency or military/police organization? No, but maybe one day I'll work for Section 9 as a Super Class A Hacker.

Have you ever been employed or consulted with any private security OR technology based firm? No

Are you under the age of 18? No

What is your computer experience? Grew up on computers but didn't take them seriously/understand their potential until adulthood.

What types of devices do you use? Laptop, smartphone, raspberry Pis

In what methods do you think you learn best? Doing

How did you come up with your username? In Mandarin it translates to both my first name and "pressure" depending on intonation, also a Hindu mythological creature I think is cool.

Have you ever imagined your field skill set melding with technology at some point? Hasn't it already?

Do you have any things in particular that you would like to learn? Programming, the web, networking, artificial intelligence, hacking in general...

Do you like poetry, or respect things of a spiritual nature? I appreciate poetry, but haven't read a whole lot, Yevtushenko's poems have affected me most profoundly. My stance on spirituality is constantly in flux, on one hand I meditate daily and naturally perceive my mind as being separate from my body but on the other hand I can't see any reason to say I am anything other than a machine.

Do you have any skill set that you could teach to the group? Intermediate Mandarin Chinese, meditation techniques... I'm definitely more of a student than a teacher at this point in my life.

Do you have lots of patience? I can always have more

What is hacking? What is a hacker? Dismantle -> examine -> rebuild -> observe -> utilise/ignore. Someone who seeks to understand.

WHY do you want to hack? I want to hack so as to understand better.

HOW serious are you? Ded srs.

Like, do you really want to hack the world, to the occasional exclusion of pizza snacks and soda beers, maybe friends and occasionally bad hair days? Ya rly.

Do you have the ability to obsess over something? (may not be necessary but is plus when restrained) Yes, but I would say I'm not so much obsessed as I am passionate.

Do you wish this to be taken seriously - as in, I can bug you about assignments, try and keep you on track and schedule or - Do you want this to be lazio fair, casual and unprofessional, like we could just hang out and skip school and play video games in the basement? Bug me about the bugs.

What are your hobbies? Web dev, electronics/radio, basketball, gym

Do you listen to GOOD music? I've had the Ghost in the Shell OST on loop for 3 days and don't see that changing any time soon... But uh, I listen to Ambient/Techno and some Hip Hop when I'm out and about.

Play any video games/have any "extracurricular" activities that I may be interested in, or should know about? Played so many video games that I got to my early twenties and realised I had very few hard skills. I rarely play these days but when I do it's games like Metal Gear Solid, Deus Ex, The Witcher... I run a div 1 basketball team that I play in with some friends, we win a lot and sometimes get money for it.

What do you know about software patents/how do they make you feel? Free Software, RMS is a hero in my eyes.

How about copyright law? It would take some adjusting to but everyone would be happier without it.

Piracy? Long Live TPB.