Interview of Hernâni Marques, CCC Switzerland

Students : Vinicius Marignac, Gautier Chardin, Hoi Ching Lee, Cho Yeung Wong, and Felicitas Murat Hernâni Marques is a computational linguist, sociologist, and neuroinformatician active in Switzerland. He is the spokesperson for the CCC Switzerland (CCC-CH), a hacker organization from a civil society between white and grey hat hacking. White hacking is done for private or public interest with permission from the owner while grey hacking revolves around finding vulnerabilities in a private or public system without the previous consent and with a political goal. Furthermore, he is a council member of the p≡p foundation which advocates privacy. There, Hernâni Marques works on creating tools to technically restore privacy. Moreover, he is politically committed to privacy, freedom of expression, and access to information. In this podcast, Hernâni Marques shares his job routine as well as his view on encryption, blockchain, mass surveillance, and cybercrime. In the end, he provides some advice for those interested in his field of work.