Redezem hails from the southern hemisphere, specifically Perth, Australia, the most isolated capital city on the planet. He's been an avid computer tinkerer in this desolate, sunny, beach-ridden wasteland from a young age, and has been a "hacker" since he stole his dad's passwords to get at the internet as a kid. Having worked part time as a web application developer during his undergraduate degree in computer science, he specialised into intrusion detection in his honours year, and is currently performing his PhD into new and fantastic network anomaly detection mechanisms at Curtin University. He currently also lectures, and works part-time as a security consultant.