Brendan O’Connor is a security researcher and law student. The former he does through his consultancy, Malice Afterthought; the latter he does at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, where he is focusing on Criminal and International Law. He is set to graduate in May 2014. His research focuses primarily on enabling access to security and privacy through development of disposable computing and sensing tools. He’s taught information warfare, played the violin, transmitted on amateur radio (K3QB), and tried to convince his cats not to eat him when he dies.