3 min readJan 21, 2017
About
My name’s Chris Monteiro and I’m a sysadmin, cybercrime and niche topic internet researcher. I cover topics such as:
- Cybercrime
- Computer and information security
- Transhumanism and the sociology of futurism
To my surprise I’m getting pretty good at some of these things, having spoken about darknet markets a few times, and I now run hpluspedia.org, the encyclopaedia of transhumanism, an area I also talk about a lot.
If you want to get in touch via email, you can use the details below. I am available for engagements around transhumanism/futurism, digital rights activism and dark web / cybercrime events.
Links and Projects
The wikis I contribute to you can find here:
- hpluspedia.org
- I run and built most of this site because I think transhumanism is the greatest most poorly documented thing there is. (About)
Other wikis I contribute to:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Deku-shrub — Wikipedian, that’s your citation right there
- https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/User:Deku-shrub — I am a skeptic
- https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/User:Deku-shrub — Yeah I am one of those as a well
I have a super-secret wiki for mysterious purposes.
Small project sites I’ve made include:
- churchofgoogle.org — I means I say ‘made’…
- mailzuck.org — Don’t forget to mail him!
- transhumanistparty.org.uk — not currently active
- metaproxy.net — I can’t even be bothered to fix this
Citations
Besa Mafia
Way too many to count. Maybe start with my statistics blog? Otherwise:
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TV
- CBS 48 Hours — Click for a Killer & Find Yura [ Blog ]
Major articles
- Wired — The unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante… and a murder [ Blog ]
- Harpers — Click here to Kill [ Podcast ]
Independent Podcasts
- Mystery Murdery Thingy — 22/5/19, enjoyable well researched
- Supernatural — 17/6/20, some errors, otherwise enjoyable
Other
Cybercrime — Print/Online
- Freedom Hosting II — Various inc Forbes
- BuzzFeed — Black Death Group [ Blog ]
- Vocativ — Can You Buy Fixed Soccer Match Results On The Dark Net?
- Demos — As the Internet Fractures, Dark Net Commerce Booms
- The Sun — SICK SEX ROBOT PROBE British cops investigating import and sale of vile sex robots designed to look like children — [ look I don’t write the headlines ]
- I am ashamed to have consulted on this Daily Star article which is riddled with factual errors :(
- Vice — The Self-Proclaimed Equifax Hackers Are Likely Nothing More Than Amateur Scammers [ Blog ]
- DeepDotWeb — Interview: Deku_shrub, Author of Pirate dot London [ Archived on the onionweb ]
- The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet — Deep Web [ Blog ]
- Bitcoin Magazine —[ My blog on urban legends]
- Metropolitan Police hack blamed on gang of teenage cyber-vandals — See also Twitter commentary and more
- Me complaining about Brave’s VPN thing
- Forbes — Its Worryingly Easy To Create Fake Government COVID-19 Warnings
- Cyberscoop — Dark web crooks wage an easy and profitable phishing scheme on Wikipedia
- Sex slaves, human hunting trips, hitmen for hire: Dark web expert sorts fact from fiction — A Daily Star interview which is actually correct
- Phishing With a Darknet: Imitation of Onion Services, Paper, Uncredited
Cybercrime — TV/Radio
- ‘Drugs in the Post’ — I contributed to this BBC 2016 mini documentary [ Blog ], oh my god I was quoted in the Daily Mail (This still gets traction these days with Jim on Podcasts)
- The Next Episode BBC Podcast — and this associated BBC news item talking about darknet market extortion scams
- Irish Radio fm104 — Can You Hire An Assassin On The Dark Web?
- Australian Radio K Rock — Exposing The Dark Web
- Sky News — short podcast on murder for hire investigations
Transhumanism
- Transhumanism / H+Pedia — tracked on H+Pedia
Other
Donations
I do not currently accept donations but I am currently reconsidering this position as of August 2019.
Contact
- Bluesky (most preferred) https://bsky.app/profile/dekushrub.bsky.social
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Deku_shrub
- Email: dekushrub519@protonmail.com
- Reddit (least preferred): https://www.reddit.com/user/Deku-shrub/
- Mastodon https://infosec.exchange/@dekushrub
Don’t believe imposters.
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