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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.

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In the Press

2026.09.18
FORBES · by Amy Guttman

An Entrepreneur Helping Businesses Control Their AI Infrastructure

Forbes on why control itself is becoming a product: how Veldris and its Midgard platform let organisations run AI on hardware they own, even fully isolated from the outside world.

FEATURE
2026.09.15
DIGITAL COMMONWEALTH · by Monty Munford

Why Europe Can No Longer Afford To Outsource Its Intelligence To Silicon Valley

On Europe's dependence on US AI infrastructure, and the companies building the alternative. Veldris's position: if you cannot inspect it, control it or run it yourself, it is not sovereign.

FEATURE
2024.02.23
PR NEWSWIRE

Djinn Technologies Ltd Acquires Volumetric Video Tech Pioneer EF EVE

The announcement of Djinn's acquisition of EF EVE, bringing the volumetric-video pioneer's capture stack in-house.

PRESS RELEASE
2023.10.11
THESTREET CRYPTO · by Rob Nelson

KryoTech Limited announces Vox Crypto wallet designed for easy, secure digital asset custody

TheStreet on the launch of Vox Crypto, and the problem it goes after: self-custody that ordinary people can actually manage.

NEWS
2023.10.11
PR NEWSWIRE

Kryotech announces next-gen cryptocurrency wallet, VOX Crypto, in partnership with Transak and WalletGuard

The launch release for Vox Crypto: a non-custodial, multi-chain wallet with card on-ramps and built-in transaction protection.

PRESS RELEASE
2023.10.11
BENZINGA

The Vox Crypto launch, as carried by Benzinga

The same launch announcement on Benzinga's press wire.

SYNDICATED
2023.10.11
SEEKING ALPHA

The Vox Crypto launch, as carried by Seeking Alpha

The same launch announcement on Seeking Alpha's press wire.

SYNDICATED
⚑ 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
2025.08

An Open Letter to the UK Government: Reconsider the Online Safety Act

Signed by JB. The public letter, initiated by Thomas Pearson and backed by more than 13,000 signatures, asking the government to repeal or rewrite the Act, and to stop handing sensitive verification data to foreign companies.

SIGNATORY
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

Signed by JB. The researchers' case for why mandated scanning of E2E-encrypted messages is impossible without breaking trust for all.

SIGNATORY
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 PENDING

Systems and Methods for Converting Video Footage into Point Clouds

US 2025/0095279 A1. Lead inventor, with Bryan Dunphy and Brett Greene, for Djinn Technologies. Pick an object in the footage and it becomes a virtual marker: found across every camera angle, then subdivided until the point clouds from each viewpoint can be stitched together.

PATENT

Depth Codec for 3D-Video Recording and Streaming Applications

US Patent 10,827,161, granted 2020. Invented by Arunas Tomkevicius at EF EVE and assigned to Djinn Technologies with the 2024 acquisition: the depth compression behind the volumetric stack.

PAPER

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

Peer-reviewed at HICSS-56 (2023, Metaverse track), with Carl H. Smith, Judith Molka-Danielsen and Jazz Rasool: how mixed reality turns the world into a machine-readable interface, and the ethics needed to protect privacy, integrity and autonomy.

PAPER

The World as an Interface, on ResearchGate

The same paper's ResearchGate listing, for citations and related work.

RESEARCH

ASTROLOC: Astronomical-Temporal-Location Cryptographic System

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

APP DEMO

REAP: Rapid Employment and Accessibility Platform

A walkthrough of the REAP app, v1.0.0, built for the XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling competition.

LAB DEMO

Project: Djinn, Dev Diary Day 0

The first build of a Unity app that connects multiple volumetric capture sensors for real-time capture and streaming, on a Luxonis Oak-D Lite.

LAB DEMO

HoloLens 2 Experiment #1

Streaming a live Oak-D Lite depth feed straight into a HoloLens 2, built on MRTK.

LAB DEMO

NeRF Test #1: Waverley Living Room

A neural radiance field of a living room from 100 photos: processed in 200 seconds, rendered in two hours.

OPEN SOURCE

DocGPT

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

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