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# обо мне
## Hi, I'm Anirudh.

But you'll see me as [icyphox](https://www.startpage.com/do/search?query=icyphox) on the Internet. 
I’m doing my undergrad right now, majoring in CS. My primary interest is computer security, and more specifically — **offensive security** and **digital forensics**. 
On the less technical side of things, I love discussing **operational security** and **tradecraft**.
I’m also a CTF player/security researcher at [Sector443](https://sector443.xyz), an infosec community at my University. 
Sometimes, I will compose a post for my [blog](/blog).

In my free time (which I tend to have a lot of) I contribute to open-source projects like the [Nim](https://nim-lang.org) programming language.
Take a look at my [GitHub](https://github.com/icyphox) profile for more of my work. 

Atmospheric/electronic metal subgenres are my jam. If it djents, I like it. My [Last.fm](https://last.fm/user/Icyphox) should be self-explanatory.
For those who didn’t click it: bands like _Oceans Ate Alaska_, _I See Stars_, _Invent Animate_, _Make Them Suffer_, _Ice Nine Kills_, etc.

You might be interested in my setup, which I’ve written about in detail [here](/blog/my-setup).

I love languages, but I can never stick to one. I currently speak English, French, Tamil
and Hindi. I can understand and read _very_ basic Japanese, and I've just begun learning
Russian which I'm really enjoying so far.

Apart from the links above, you can also find me on

- [Reddit](https://reddit.com/u/icyphox)
- [Lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs/u/icyphox)
- [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Icyphox)
- [Steam](https://steamcommunity.com/id/icyphox)

## Contact

My DMs on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/icyphox) are open, so feel free to slide into them.
Don’t use Twitter? Shoot me a plain-text [email](mailto:x@icyphox.sh). If it’s something secret, here’s my [Keybase](https://keybase.io/icyphox).

Want to **hire me**? I’m down for freelance security work. Here’s my [résumé](https://x.icyphox.sh/resume.pdf).

## This website

The site itself is built using my own static site generator — [vite](https://github.com/icyphox/vite). 

This site uses no cookies, and I'm generally not interested in any form of tracking/analytics. However, my DNS and SSL provider, CloudFlare,
does collect basic data like site hits and demographics. I've been meaning to get rid of it, but laziness has gotten the best of me. 

The entirety of the content on my site is licensed under [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
The source code for the site is licensed under [MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).