Astrophysicist turned advocate: guiding the globe to a safer, stronger Internet. Distinguished Technologist @internetsociety, @joebeone@techpolicy.social
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ALT Michelle, Dave, and Joe smiling for a selfie in front of towering golden, dried cornstalks at a corn maze in Woodbury, Connecticut. Michelle, on the left, wears sunglasses, a black jacket, and a navy star-patterned scarf. Dave, in the middle, wears sunglasses and a denim jacket over layered shirts. Joe, on the right, holds the camera, wearing a black cap, sunglasses, and a black fleece. Wispy clouds stretch across the blue autumn sky. Michelle, Dave, and Joe smiling for a selfie in front of towering golden, dried cornstalks at a corn maze in Woodbury, Connecticut. Michelle, on the left, wears sunglasses, a black jacket, and a navy star-patterned scarf. Dave, in the middle, wears sunglasses and a denim jacket over layered shirts. Joe, on the right, holds the camera, wearing a black cap, sunglasses, and a black fleece. Wispy clouds stretch across the blue autumn sky.
ALT A colorful sign titled “Kernel B. Cobb’s Word Game” stands among dried cornstalks in a Woodbury, Connecticut, corn maze. A cartoon ear of corn dressed as a professor points toward two historical clues. Number 15 describes Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. Number 16 begins, “The INTERNET began as a research communication network,” and explains how it grew into a worldwide system connecting billions of computers and people. Part of the maze’s America 250 theme.
ALT Blue-ink line drawing from a first-person perspective, showing two laptops balanced across someone's lap: a dark MacBook on the left displaying overlapping browser windows and a silver ASUS Chromebook on the right displaying a terminal with code and browser windows. Both are in use for agentic software development. The detailed navy-blue cross-hatching on a pale mint background depicts a bedroom with a quilted bed, wooden furniture, shelves, and another person seated on the floor in the background.
ALT Side-by-side mockup of the front and back of a white T-shirt, with large, bold black “FRONT” and “BACK” labels above each shirt. The front has a bold question printed across the upper chest: “What does 47 zero bytes followed by a single byte containing 04 look like in Base64-encoded ASN.1 DER PEM?” Below is a block of monospaced text resembling a PEM-encoded elliptic-curve private key, beginning with “—–BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY—–” and containing several lines of Base64, including conspicuously long runs of the letter A, before the closing delimiter. The back is almost comically sparse. It contains only three lines: —–BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY—– 4 —–END EC PRIVATE KEY—– The design references the eMudhra certificate authority incident, in which a P-384 elliptic-curve private key had the extraordinarily predictable private scalar 4. The joke contrasts the elaborate encoding on the front with the embarrassingly simple mathematical secret on the back.
