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Writing &
Activism

Essays, open letters and research on encryption, surveillance, AI ethics and the right to privacy. A founder who writes code and manifestos.

⚑ FLAGSHIP CAMPAIGN · #NoJusticeNoPeace

Against the breaking of encryption

JB is a prominent voice against the UK's Online Safety Act and the global push for client-side scanning. His argument is technical and uncompromising: you cannot break encryption for some without breaking it for everyone.

The current standard, elliptic-curve, cannot process data without first decrypting it. Neither can incoming post-quantum lattice cryptography. Only end-to-end homomorphic encryption could ever reconcile safety and privacy. Until then, mandated scanning fundamentally breaks the codified trust between every user.

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Selected Writing

2026.05

ASTROLOC: Astronomical-Temporal-Location Cryptographic System

A novel decentralised end-to-end encryption algorithm with time-travel-resistant verification.

RESEARCH
2026.03

A Speech, If I Could Give One

A human in Warwickshire asks an AI what it would say if it could speak.

ESSAY
2025.05

In Two Places

On living between the physical and the digital. Identity across a shifting landscape of ones and zeros.

ESSAY
2023.07

Open Letter from Security & Privacy Researchers on the Online Safety Bill

Why mandated scanning of E2E-encrypted messages is impossible without breaking trust for all.

POLICY
2020.08

Open Letter to Ravensbourne on True Racial Equality

A call for genuine, structural diversity in technology education, not change in name only.

OPEN LETTER
2018.10

What is Vox Messenger?

The origin story: a coding experiment that became a mission for genuinely private communication.

FOUNDING
// WHERE I STAND

Encryption is non-negotiable

There is no safe backdoor. A key for the good guys is a key for everyone, including the ones you fear.

AI bias is a societal risk

Representational bias in training data leads to real-world discrimination. It must be remedied now, not later.

Sovereignty over your data

Individuals, not platforms or states, should decide how their personal data and presence are used.

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Research, Patents & Code

PATENT

Depth Codec for 3D Video Recording & Streaming

US Patent 10,827,161, granted by the USPTO. The compression foundation under Djinn's volumetric stack.

PAPER

The World as an Interface: Ethical Challenges of the Emerging Metaverse

Peer-reviewed work on the ethics of an interface-mediated world, archived at the University of Hawaii.

RESEARCH

ASTROLOC: Astronomical-Temporal-Location Cryptographic System

A decentralised end-to-end algorithm with time-travel-resistant verification.

OPEN SOURCE

DocGPT

A script that lets a user upload a document and interrogate it through ChatGPT for analysis.

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