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Welcome to Alexander Hansen Færøy’s homepage!

I am a hacker from Copenhagen, Denmark. My interests include the development of free & open source software, information security, hardware hardening, cryptography, privacy enhancing technologies, network protocols, distributed systems, and programming languages. I particularly enjoy building highly distributed systems using functional programming languages such as Erlang, and low-level systems programming in the C, C++, and Rust programming languages.

When I have free time, I enjoy reading, photography, homebrewing beer, and organizing BornHack. I also occasionally contribute to various free software projects. Some of my work is available on my GitHub and GitLab profiles.

I work as the Network Team Lead at The Tor Project. The Network Team is responsible for developing the core Tor applications, libraries, and support utilities. Over the last couple of years, our primary focus has been hacking on a Rust re-implementation of Tor, known as Arti. Our goal with Arti is to build a set of libraries that allow 3rd-party developers to fully leverage Tor’s anonymity and anti-censorship technology, while enabling our team to focus more on feature development rather than addressing issues inherent to C’s memory unsafe nature that negatively impact the reference implementation of Tor.

If you want to support The Tor Project, you can run a relay or a bridge, and participate in the Tor network as an operator. It is also possible to donate directly to the project.

I am not particularly good at keeping this site up-to-date, but you should be able to find information on how to contact me, read the blog posts I have written, and look at the public talks I have given over the years. This site is also available as an Onion Service if your browser supports it.

Traveling

I enjoy traveling, but unfortunately, I have only visited European and North American countries. Here is a map of the countries I have visited so far.