Carrie Smith

defence in depth

Welcome to my website! My name is Carrie Smith, and I'm a MSc Information Technology student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

I recently graduated from King's College London with a BSc Hons in Computer Science! I also just finished up a lovely IT/cybersecurity internship at Nippon Life Benefits in New York. Here is my CV if you are interested.

Today I have published my first instalment in a series on the etymology and history of the word 'hacker', as well as my motivational typology which classifies hackers as one of four types based on their main motivators. Hooray!

• my most recent post, "Defining the Hacker: Part 1"
• my blog posts
• my now page
• previous life updates from me
• my art!

A few things I'm interested in right now (in no particular order):

• Network security. Take a look at my undergraduate dissertation on this topic here!
• Woodcarving, particularly carving wooden stamps
• The Internet, the history of the Internet, evolution from Web 1.0 -> Web 2.0, web vulnerabilities, old viruses, worms, and useless websites
• Anything published in 2600 Magazine, written by Kevin Mitnick, or presented at HOPE XV.

Contact me at: ccarrieasmith [at] gmail [dot] com