About Us
The Meyda Online site is a part of my personal endeavor to help people understand various issues affecting people in the increasingly networked world.
This independent project is not a business venture and has no affiliation with any organization or other entity. It receives and seeks no outside funding. It is maintained solely with my personal funds.
Meyda Online Project started with a computer bulletin board system (BBS) in central New Jersey USA in the early 1990′s. In the mid-1990s, a Web companion for the Meyda BBS was set up at www.meydabbs.com. At the end of the 1990′s, it was taken offline because the Internet was being used by far more people than were the BBSes. The meydabbs.com still remains as an e-mail contact domain.
Because fewer people are familiar with BBSes these days, the domain name for the Web site was changed to meydaonline.com. The meydabbs.com domain is still operation, mainly for email handling.
My philosophy is pro-individual liberty with an understanding of various societal concerns. I enjoy working and playing with technology but am respectful of the power of technology for both good and evil purposes.
The reason for the coverage of security, privacy, and liberty is to examine important values that often collide and don’t get a decent examination.
My personal worldview is somewhate Jewish (Torah Cyberpunk?
My political viewpoints don’t fit neat pigeonholes. (Pigeonholes are better suited for birds anyway). So there are comments that can seem very “conservative” and others that seem quite “progressive” or “radical” in different places on this site. Sometimes I refer to myself as “Marxist”… as in Groucho Marx.