# Prof Diggity

> Personal site of Sean O'Brien ("Prof Diggity"): cybersecurity educator,
> researcher, and Free Software advocate. Founder of Ivy Cyber and PrivacySafe,
> President of PrivacySafe Foundation, founder of Yale Privacy Lab, Associate
> Research Scholar at Yale Law School, Director of the Cybersecurity and
> Computer Science Programs and Assistant Professor at Bay Path University, and
> Deputy Director of the Free Software Foundation.

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## License

Two licenses, covering different things. Site content (text, images, and other
media) is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-SA 4.0). The website source files (HTML and CSS) are free software
licensed GNU Affero General Public License version 3 or any later version
(AGPL-3.0-or-later). This site serves no JavaScript.

## About Sean

Sean has more than two decades of experience in the private and public sectors
in areas such as infrastructure management, Free/Libre and Open Source Software
(FLOSS), and blockchain security. At Ivy Cyber, "Prof Diggity" delivers digital
self-defense trainings and guides the PrivacySafe secure hardware and software
products. His research and commentary on surveillance, mobile security, and
Free Software have appeared in The New York Times, Wired, AP, NBC, Popular
Science, Forbes, and The Financial Times.

## Roles

- Founder, Ivy Cyber
- Founder, PrivacySafe
- President, PrivacySafe Foundation
- Founder, Yale Privacy Lab
- Associate Research Scholar, Yale Law School
- Director of Cybersecurity and Computer Science Programs and Assistant
  Professor, Bay Path University
- Deputy Director, Free Software Foundation

## Organizations

- [Ivy Cyber](https://ivycyber.com): Cybersecurity consulting, privacy
  engineering, education, and secure product development. Publishes and
  supports PrivacySafe.
- [PrivacySafe Apps](https://privacysafe.app): Privacy-by-design apps and
  infrastructure for communication and digital ownership, built on the 3NWeb
  protocols.
- [PrivacySafe Foundation](https://privacysafe.foundation): A 501(c)(3)
  nonprofit public charity supporting the PrivacySafe applications and the
  components they rely upon.
- [Yale Privacy Lab](https://privacylab.yale.edu): Research and public-interest
  work focused on privacy, security, surveillance, and digital rights.
- [Bay Path University](https://baypath.edu): Cybersecurity and computer
  science education focused on workforce development.
- [Free Software Foundation](https://fsf.org): A nonprofit organization
  advancing user freedom and the global free software movement.
- [Bits On Tape](https://bitsontape.com): A science and technology newsletter
  covering cybersecurity, privacy, and digital culture.

## Contact

- [CV / Resume](https://ivycyber.com/cv)
- Email: sean@ivycyber.com
- [Mastodon](https://privacysafe.social/@profdiggity)
- [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/profdiggity.com)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/profdiggity)
- [PGP key](https://psafe.ly/pgp-ivy)