Commentary
Authorship Was Never the Typing
· 21 min read · 8 sources
I use a language model to draft these briefs. Writing is mine when the idea, the verdict on what is true and the decision to publish were mine to get right.
Profile
I founded my first business at 16 and spent the next seven years building software, for my own companies and for others. I gained hands-on experience in managing a business, developing products that work and building resilient infrastructure.
I spent three years at the IT University of Copenhagen on a BSc in Software Development, and the next five on security and the layers below it. My MSc, where I specialised in information security, came first, and my PhD took me further down the stack, into drivers and operating system code. I taught Operating Systems and C to more than 500 students along the way.
Since leaving academia, I have worked on the defensive side of cybersecurity, first as a Security Advisor and now as a Security Architect. Most of the work is finding the weak link in a design and working out which fixes are worth what they cost. Knowing how systems are built, down to the firmware, is what lets me find it.
Experience
14+ yrs
Students taught
500+
PhD
Computer Science
IT University of Copenhagen
MSc
Computer Science
IT University of Copenhagen
BSc
Software Development
IT University of Copenhagen
Experience
2026 - Present
Danish National Police
Security Architect
Critical systems · Public sector
2024 - 2025
itm8
Security Advisor
Advisory · Defensive security
2019 - 2024
IT University of Copenhagen
PhD Fellow · Research Assistant
Systems research · Teaching
2023
TU Dresden
Visiting Researcher
Research stay · Systems research
2020
Samsung
Research Intern
Storage research · Firmware
2018 - 2019
Siteimprove
Student Developer
Product development · Accessibility
2012 - 2019
Self-Employed
Founder
Business development · Engineering
2016 - 2018
Pairy
Lead Developer
Product leadership · Engineering
2015
Trifork
Junior Software Pilot
Advisory · App development
Skills
- Security Architecture
- I design security controls at the architecture level for environments where failure has high operational cost. I work from the threat model through to implementation, including the code and infrastructure the design will run on.
- Privacy by Design
- I treat privacy as an engineering requirement from the first design. In practice that means collecting less data and being open with people about what is kept, while the system still does its job.
- Software Engineering
- I build and review software in C, C++, C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript and PHP. I care most about secure defaults and code that is still easy to maintain years later.
- Systems & Infrastructure
- I have built cloud infrastructure on Kubernetes for startups, and worked hands-on with Linux, Active Directory, storage and networking, including on-site work in data centres.
- Academic Research
- My PhD research at the IT University of Copenhagen covered computational storage, drivers and firmware.
- Technical Teaching & Mentoring
- I have lectured 500+ students in Operating Systems and C at the IT University of Copenhagen. I have supervised a BSc project and mentored five students under SPS, the Danish support scheme for students with disabilities.
Briefs
Long-form writing on security and privacy.
14 briefs across 6 categories. That is 34,973 words, taking 2h 55m to read. They cite 78 sources.
Surveillance & Privacy
The Retention Economy: Kept at All Costs
· 18 min read · 11 sources
A recommendation feed is not trying to entertain you. It is trying to keep you watching, and it drifts towards whatever version of you is easiest to hold on to.
Digital Sovereignty
What Anthropic Taught Us About Digital Sovereignty
· 9 min read · 5 sources
On 12 June 2026 the US ordered Anthropic to cut off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every foreign national. The sovereignty risk we kept calling theoretical just happened.
3 runnable exhibits accompany the briefs, each with the output and the machine it was recorded on.
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