A Cybersecurity Memoir
Welcome to My Timeline (A cybersecurity memoir).

This website brings together my professional memoir: a collection of stories that have shaped my journey, from my first encounters with computers to the work I do today. In revisiting these experiences, I tried to reconstruct not only the sequence of events, but also the context, the spirit of the time, and the small discoveries that, in one way or another, ended up guiding me.
I wrote these accounts with the intention of both entertaining and teaching. In part, to show how technology has evolved and how different that early world was from the one we live in today. But also to remember that a career is built gradually, through choices, chance events, and opportunities that end up shaping the path in ways we can only fully understand many years later.
That’s what you will find here: an honest account of what I lived through, written with the hope that it may be useful, or at least spark some curiosity, for those who are just beginning or rethinking their own journey.
Index
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Part 1: From 1983 to 1991
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Part 2: From 1992 to 1996
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Chapter 6. Freshmen
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Chapter 7. The Dark Side
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Chapter 8. Virus-L
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Chapter 9. Internet without Web
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Chapter 10. Multimedia without Media
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Chapter 11. Undergraduate Research
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Chapter 12. The Junior Enterprise
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Chapter 13. Canada
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Chapter 14. 2600 Meeting
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Chapter 15. Expert Solutions
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Chapter 16. The Last Semester
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Part 3: From 1996 to 1998
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Chapter 17. The Warehouse
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Chapter 18. The Ride
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Chapter 19. Bits in 3D
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Chapter 20. The Book
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Chapter 21. The Master’s Topic
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Chapter 22. The Second Semester
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Chapter 23. You're a dad now
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Chapter 24. Eiffel?
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Chapter 25. A Network for the University
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Chapter 26. Porgramming Assignment
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Chapter 27. Don’t Get Cocky
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Part 4: From 1999 to 2006
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Chapter 28. A Research Topic
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Chapter 29. Artificial Intelligence
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Chapter 30. Performance Review
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Chapter 31. Unemployed
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Chapter 32. BMS - First Projects
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Chapter 33. BMS - What’s New?
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Chapter 34. BMS - More Projects
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Chapter 35. Brasília, here we go!
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Chapter 36. BRB
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Chapter 37. Geometric Authentication
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Chapter 38. Work for Free?
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Chapter 39. Back to School
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