Biography

This is about Ali Reza Hayati. If you want to know more about the blog, read the about page.

Ali Reza Hayati (pronounced æ‬‬lI r‫‪ɛ‬‬z‫‪ɒ h‫‪æ‬‬j‫‪‫‪ɑ:‬‬tI) is an entrepreneur, engineer, hacker, cypherpunk, and user freedom activist working to spread the use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing free (as in freedom) technologies to help people take full control over what they own.

He studied industrial engineering, business management, and computer science. Having a degree in computer science, he worked in various labs and projects to better understand how computers and digital machines are made and work.

He is currently part of a team of project managers and planning group in a petrochemical company.

Ali Reza runs an electronic parts import and wholesale, as well as doing repairs, so he highly advocates for people’s right to repair. He and his partners do various hardware hacks as well as doing software fixes to help people own their own devices by using free software.

As a privacy advocate, he educates people to make sure they know their rights; and their privacy is respected as they wish. He encourages people to fight against surveillance capitalism and abolish the wrong idea that companies own users’ data.

Ali is a free software/culture activist, trying to spread the philosophy of computer user freedom and freedom in all published works. He is a GNU person/contributor, and an associate member of the Free Software Foundation. He is very careful about his computing, using only freedom-respecting software.

Hayati highly advocates for widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change.