About
Welcome to my blog The NeonSoup House!
My name is Dave but I also go by x0darkpadr3 online.
I live in prairie country near the beautiful Canadian Rockies with my family. I'm a proud Aussie who ironically became a Canadian citizen on Australia Day a few years back.
I studied Hebrew and archaeology at university, was a youth pastor in a couple of churches, and worked as a youth worker/food services manager for a Christian social non-profit that helps at-risk kids.
Most recently, I have been a stay-at-home dad while I career transition into Information Security (Infosec).
In 2020, I finished a 10-month university program in Cyber Security and have recently obtained my CompTIA Security+ Certification. I have also been working on gaining skills in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Privacy.
This blog is a bit of an eclectic mix as I like to write about Faith, Books, Mental Health, Fitness, Privacy, Politics, OSINT, Social Engineering & Private Investigating.
You can use the tags/categories below to navigate the different topics found on this blog:
OSINT – Privacy – Private Investigating – Social Engineering – Faith Mental Health – Prairie Life – Books – Weekly Review – Daily Links
I have also written extensively on my personal experience regarding emotional and spiritual abuse. You can read about my story here.
Finally, I am a Fedora & SecBSD user; who is a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation & OWASP.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is does not respresent the views of my employer (past, present or future) or anyone else but me.
The header art on this site is created by the talented Banshee.