I am Daniel Nyström. During daylight I’m the Technical Support Manager for Panda Security in Sweden/Finland and at night I’m that guy you don’t want to meet in an empty parkinglot heh…

When I was thirteen I got interested in the Internet and HTML and later set out to learn other languages and how to find security vulnerabilities in different types of code. During this period I was a member of the “Dreamworks” and “Telhack 026″ hacking and phreaking groups under the synonym excE.

The articles and information that I post here is not supposed to be directly associated to my employer, but you might see some influenses here and there. However, these are only my personal experiences, ideas, thoughts and opinions, and they are not to be associated with the views of my employer in any way.

On this blog you’ll find my own thoughts and comments on computer security, malware specifics, privacy issues and other things that I’m involved in at the moment. In short, it’s my personal blog.

Other than the tech stuff I enjoy photography, bodybuilding, tv-shows and doing things with my wife Natasha and my French bulldogs Ruby and Vera.

As of June 2008 I’m also a member of the Swedish Pirate Party. And no, lobbying to be able to download things is not all that we do. Read the english party information if you are interested. I was previously a member of the Liberal-party (Folkpartiet), but was forced to leave as they insisted on supporting the sitting government in creating a mass surveillance law which will mandate the monitoring of Swedish citizens phone and internet activities.

Other contributors

From time to time, other people that I know might post their content on this blog. Same goes for them as for me, it’s their own personal views that are being expressed. We’ll try to stay away from our usual corporate mumbojumbo here… Those that currently have this privilege are:

Sebastian Zabala

Mr. Z is our own little security expert and if you live in Sweden you might have seen him in the papers from time to time saying that it’s dangerous on the ol’ wild web Seriously though, he is probably going to contribute some of his finer thoughts to this blog and I welcome him to do so.