...or welcome back! I’ve been silent for the last 7 years and now I’m trying to resurface with this new blog :-) Some of you might remember my previous work on Qubes OS 1 , a paranoid-security OS, which I started back in 2009, and led its development for the next 9 years. Others might have been readers of my previous blog 2 , written in the period of 2006-2018, focusing on computer systems security (and insecurity), and specifically on operating systems and virtualization security. Very technical staff, in other words ;) So technical, in fact, that it was easy for me to lose touch with some other aspects of life. During my long life as a computer security researcher and architect, I’ve been primarily motivated by the pursuit of Truth (aka Knowledge) as the supreme Value. And Freedom. Other transcendentals 3 , those typically associated with Humanism, I tended to consider to be of a somewhat lesser value.…