About
Welcome to my blog The NeonSoup House!
My name is Dave but I also go by x0darkpadr3 elsewhere 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) and Private Investigations.
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 Risk Management, OSINT, and Threat Intel.
This blog is a bit of an eclectic mix as I like to write about Faith, Pop Culture, Mental Health, Fitness, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), Private Investigations, Social Engineering, Risk Management, and Threat Intelligence.
You can use the links below to navigate the different topics found on this blog:
OSINT – Threat Intelligence – Private Investigations – Write Ups Mental Health – Faith & Spirituality – Health & Fitness – My Bookshelf
Finally, I am a Fedora & SecBSD user; who is a member of the OpenJS Foundation, 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.