About Nik Cubrilovic

Australian-born serial entrepreneur, blogger and hacker. Currently working on pre-launch startups, previously at Techcrunch, Omnidrive and a number of other startups since 2000.

Lived in Australia, Bosnia, the UK, South Africa and the USA. Currently based in Wollongong, Australia.

University of Wollongong drop-out, experience at CEO and CTO. Blogging since '99. Writer at Techcrunch from 2007. Named in Australia's The Bulletin magazine in 2007 as one of Australia's 'Smart 100', 'Smart 10 under 30' and top 10 technology entrepreneurs.

In the late 90s I worked in the security field publishing over 20 advisories around web application security, IIS, Windows NT, Linux etc. Today I am an advocate for user privacy and online rights.

Crunchbase Profile for more information. Most of my code is on GitHub

The software for this blog is called Buckley. It is Python on GAE, and is open source and available on Github: http://github.com/nikcub/nikcub-blog. I have released the code under a BSD license - feel free to fork it and use it.

I am usually available as a consultant.

In the Media

Selected Media

New York Times: Privacy Groups ask FTC to investigate Facebook

BBC - Facebook fixed cookie ID glitch

"Frictionless Sharing A Cause For Concern" -- Editorial in The Australian by Nik Cubrilovic

The Australian - Live Blog with Nik Cubrilovic

NYTimes: Update on latest Twitter attack

Sunday Sun Herald Feature: Beware cookie monster - Hacker exposed Facebook flaws (October 9, 2011)

Interview with Robert Scoble while at Techcrunch

Writing

Blog posts on Techmeme (since 2007)

TechCrunch - Posts by Nik Cubrilovic

Content License

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Code Licenses

All code found on this site and in my code repositories, unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license which requires nothing more other than to retain a copy of the license, the copyright notice and the contact details of the author.

A full copy of that license can be found at http://nikcub.appspot.com/bsd-license.txt