About me

Hi and welcome to my web blog.

I’m Marcelo Camati, an Brazilian cybersecurity engineering by passion, avid Linux power user and cyberpunk theme enthusiast.

This blog is used as my public notes for my study cases, opinions and ideas mainly on cybersecurity, digital privacy and the “cyberspace” as a whole.

⚠️ Do not take my word for everything I write here, I’ll always try to stay true to the facts and provide the source material but I strong encourage you to also go after the knowledge and create your own opinion about the subject.

💼 Profession

My professional background started as an QA and programmer intern on a renowned Linux distribution company in South America, where I deepened my knowledge and passion on Linux OS.

After that I expanded my expertise in the field of cybersecurity, infrastructure and privacy in an healthcare company that enriched and sparked my interest in those fields even more.

Today I help companies and projects to achieve and maintain compliance with cybersecurity’s best practice and digital privacy applying with what I learned from my past jobs and by myself, in the challenge but very rewarding, roles that I worked in my professional years in the field.

❤️‍🔥 Passion

One of my passion is the Linux OS, it started way before my professional background, my first contact with Linux was in 2003 on Kurumin Linux distribution that made me avid Linux power user that I’m today. After that I experimented with a lot of distribution, ranging from old-school like Debian though the more new ones like Ubuntu,Fedora and Mint. A lot of these distribution gave me more and more knowledge inside this awesome OS but the one that I continuing using in my daily basis is Archlinux, for its simplicity and minimalist way.

Another passion of mine lies in the cybersecurity field as a whole, it also started way before my professional life in the field. I always admire the power of the knowledge to protect and at the same time hack systems, making it doing something that its not suppose to be doing. It started somewhere in the early 2000s too, that I personally see as a gold year for hackers and geek community in general, The Matrix movie was out and there were a lot buzzing in hacking communities like on IRC, internet blogs and sites that shows systems vulnerability and how to exploit them. Since then it captured my attention in hacking and how to protect digital assets from the knowledge I gained studying and researching on my own about this incredible field that I continue to learn everyday.

Besides my professional skills my hobbies range from cyberpunk themes in any media format, reading (fantasy,science fiction, philosophy, history about ancient civilizations, cybersecurity and digital privacy), synthwave music, anime (Ghost in the Shell and Berserker are an good examples of my taste for this subject or we can summarize it to the seinen category as a whole), cycling and gaming in general.

🧭 Purpose

Besides using my passions to help organizations and people staying up to date to latest threats and protect their digital assets I decided to create this blog, besides it being as professional showcase of my skills, it also be a way to contribute back to the world that has give me so much in return. Of course I had to go after it and learn on my own what I know today but Linux that I used on my daily basis and teach me a lot about computer and programming, is an open source software, its out there for free for you to look at its code and study it and even use it the way you seem fit. My cybersecurity background was also possible thanks to a bunch of people that transmitted their knowledge on the web or by people that i had contact with, that give me that knowledge that i know today. The transmission of knowledge is one of the few things in this world that does not subtract from you; instead, it just multiplies as you pass it on.

This blog can be seen like one of hundred ones out there that continue to help people in a specific subject or with a new knowledge as a whole, it doesn’t really matter how much it contributes. What matter is the share of knowledge and giving it back to the world to aggregate it with more knowledge that the immense power of the internet can help us achieve today that we have in our finger tips right now.

Here I use the words of the world wide web creator himself, Timothy John Berners-Lee:

“When I proposed the Web in 1989, the driving force I had in mind was communication through shared knowledge, and the driving “market” for it was collaboration among people at work and at home.” — Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web (1999) ¹

Finally, this blog will also be used as an public note for my own study cases, opinions and ideas on a given subject, to force me always continue improving myself in this huge and rapid evolving fields of computer engineering, digital privacy and cybersecurity. As the sayings goes:

“Only practice makes perfect.”