#CyberpunkisNow

11/18/2020 PLEASE NOTE: As of September 30th of this year, GoFundMe moved over to a new system that required my filling out forms to restart/continue this campaign; donations have been 'paused' until then unfortunately.


#CyberpunkisNow is a project producing Digital Privacy/Anonymity, Counter-Surveillance, Hacking, Technology, Information Security/Cyber Security, Science & Open Source Intelligence content meant to educate, establish/maintain a public dialogue & create awareness regarding the ways technology continues to permeate civilization.

Begun in October 2018, this content reaches millions of unique screens each month (averaging at least 1 million Twitter impressions each month since December 2018) & has had its content  featured by multiple major news outlets.

Some examples of these include:

Yahoo News

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/alita-battle-angel-filmmakers-give-new-bionic-arms-young-amputee-154443064.html) 

The Washington Post 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/2019/04/08/trending-something-tells-me-blake-shelton-doesnt-really-care-about-miranda-lambert-diss/

Fast Company

https://www.fastcompany.com/90286772/schools-in-china-are-tracking-students-with-gps-enabled-smart-uniforms

Wired UK 

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/avoid-facial-recognition-software

HypeBeast 

https://hypebeast.com/2019/5/nasa-moon-base-space-exploration-plans-2024

https://hypebeast.com/2018/12/china-track-students-with-intelligent-uniforms

CarbonTV

https://blog.carbontv.com/2019/05/30/40mm-grenade-launched-drone-is-straight-out-of-scifi/

Detroit News Watch  

http://detroitnewswatch.org/ford-looks-to-wearable-technology-to-ease-burden-for-assembly-workers-detroit-news-watch/

Design Taxi

https://designtaxi.com/news/406101/China-Clones-Its-First-Cat-For-Man-Who-Struggled-To-Overcome-Loss-Of-His-Pet/

And dozens more.

A large part of this project involves my creation of  original Information Security/Cyber Security and Open Source Intelligence content that I provide to help educate current & future Information Security professionals.

This content covers real world examples generated from my years of  professional experience, much of which I spent helping to secure critical Fortune 500/Global 500 companies such as Stanley Black & Decker, Schneider Electric, national Grid & Boston Scientific.

This content is released via Twitter page with specialized, long form projects released on 0x00Sec.org & Medium.

Some of these long form projects include:

• The Beginning of One Hacker’s Thoroughly Referenced /Evidenced OSINT Investigation of Clearview AI
https://medium.com/@hackermaderas/the-beginning-of-one-hackers-thoroughly-referenced-evidenced-osint-investigation-of-clearview-ai-1aa2e9109492

• Shared Thoughts after 6+ years in Pentesting
https://0x00sec.org/t/shared-thoughts-after-6-years-in-pentesting/2492

• Essay - Images, Video & Thoughts: Professional Hacker, 2011 to Present
https://0x00sec.org/t/essay-images-video-thoughts-professional-hacker-2011-to-present/8782

• Random Thoughts After Nearly 9 years Pentesting/Red Teaming: 2019
https://0x00sec.org/t/random-thoughts-after-nearly-9-years-pentesting-red-teaming-2019/16397

• Tyrannosaurus reproduced fast and died young: A malicious host/IP/C&C from China, 2016 to
present

https://0x00sec.org/t/tyrannosaurus-reproduced-fast-and-died-young-a-malicious-host-ip-c-c-from-china-2016-to-present/6691

• Real Penetration Tests: Equalizers and Dirty Tricks

https://0x00sec.org/t/real-penetration-tests-equalizers-and-dirty-tricks/5512

• My Personal OSINT Techniques, Part 1 of 2: Key & Layer, Contingency Seeding

https://0x00sec.org/t/my-personal-osint-techniques-part-1-of-2-key-layer-contingency-seeding/13033

• My Personal OSINT Techniques,Volume 2: The Kitchen Sink

https://0x00sec.org/t/my-personal-osint-techniques-volume-2-the-kitchen-sink/13198

In less than 3 months, this project has become a huge success & grown rapidly, which I think is paramount in expressing the timely, important conversation/ideas this project is facilitating:






Why am I asking for your help?


I believe in the importance of #CyberpunkisNow; I believe in this project's capacity/potential to make this world a better place with every fiber of my being.

I also believe in the necessity of #CyberpunkisNow and feel that generating the awareness/providing the education needed to really generate change will require I make this project a full time job .

I've received offers from companies to sell my analysis as a subscription service, suggest/advertise their products to generate income via affiliate links/sponsorships, etc.; I have refused to do so as I believe this project must remain completely independent of corporate entanglement to fulfill its mission.

Any investment of any mount bestows upon me a huge responsibility to do my absolute best and ensure that I am doing all I can to move forward with this project's mission.

Just reading this far was an investment of your time that I also take seriously.

I will work my hardest to ensure that my work is worthy of these investments.

Please realize that the research that needs to be done for #CyberpunkisNow to exist as a project/platform is a full time job itself; I easily spend 40+ hours a week on this project on top of my other work & am hoping that if my content is something you appreciate, that you can help me make this my full time job (or at least help me spend less time working outside of the project).

At minimum, I need funding to help this project grow; for example, I want to start a podcast for the project, but dont have/can't currently afford the equipment necessary (such as a microphone).

 PLEASE NOTE: This goal is fluid; thus the goal is starting out higher & will (hopefully) rise as donations are received & #CyberpunkisNow continues to grow.

Thank you for trust & your investment of time and/or money; I will do my very best to worthy of these and make this world a better place.

Thank you.

Maderas