Steven Phillips is a Philosopher and computer programmer. He studied Philosophy and mathematics at UC Santa Barbara before co-founding the cleverly-named Santa Barbara Hackerspace in 2010. In 2012, after heeding the warnings of Jacob Appelbaum and Julian Assange of an ever-growing surveillance state, he co-founded The Cloak Project ("TCP" for short) with AJ Bahnken. TCP has since produced the secure chat programs LanChat and Cloakcast, as well as cryptographic utility libraries written in the Go programming language.

Steven is passionate about human Greatness, social justice, democratizing forces, and revolutionary projects.