Acidus has lectured for the past two years at the PhreakNic and Interz0ne conferences in the Southeast, and has been published numerous times in 2600. Topics have ranged from circumventing lockdown software, building a magstripe authenticating Coke machine, hacking the PC heart of ATMs, XM Radio infrastructure concerns, and various hardware projects. He is currently doing grant research on embedded systems at a well known engineering university.