MazenDaou

I build tools that show what the web learns about you.

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$ whoami

Security, software, and a little hardware.

I’m an IT Security master’s student at TU Darmstadt. I spent three years in Bosch Building Technologies’ IT-security dual-study programme, and I still work for Bosch as a working student, on site at Frankfurt Airport.

My personal projects explore privacy, networks and software, with the occasional Raspberry Pi or ESP32 experiment.

$ ls ~/exhibits

Two things to try on yourself.

Submarine cables drawn on a globe centred on Europe and Africa

Where your packets go

Trace any domain from this site’s server. Each hop lands on a globe of 576 submarine cables, with the likely path between hops marked as an estimate.

Open the traceroute

Cables © TeleGeography, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

What your browser gives away

That print is yours: its ridges and colours come from how your browser drew one test image, worked out on this page and sent nowhere. Move across it to smudge it. The lab lifts the full print and explains what each piece can and cannot prove.

Open the privacy lab

$ cat ~/record

Bosch Building Technologies

  1. Current

    Working student

    On site at Frankfurt Airport

  2. Completed · 3 years

    IT-security dual student

    Bachelor’s dual study programme

$ ls ~/tools

Things I work with.

Programming

  • Python
  • Java
  • C / C++
  • Rust
  • Flutter / Dart

Web Development

  • HTML / CSS / JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • UX / Design
Seen in the traceroute globe

Hardware

  • Raspberry Pi
  • ESP32 / IoT
  • 3D Printing

Security

  • Network Security
  • Privacy Engineering
  • Secure Coding
  • Risk Assessment
Seen in the privacy lab

$ ping mazen (contact)