About this episodeWhat does it mean to have communication privacy? Who is responsible for free speech? Dr. Corey Petty, Chief Security Officer of Status joins the podcast to discuss his role at the company, how he is securing the rights of others and the role of messaging networks in the 21st century. Dr. Corey Petty is the Chief Security Officer of Status and started his blockchain focused research around 2012 as a personal hobby while doing his PhD candidacy at Texas Tech University in Computational Chemical Physics. He then went on to co-found The Bitcoin Podcast Network and still serves as a host on the flagship The Bitcoin Podcast and a more technical show Hashing It Out. Corey left academia and entered the data science/blockchain security industry for a few years attempting to fix vulnerabilities in ICS/SCADA networks before finding his fit as the head of security at Status.im where he remains today.Corey's LinksLinkedin | TwitterStatus' HomepageWhere to find the showiTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS FeedWhat to listen forSUPPORT THE SHOWIf you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following:Help keep this show going by sending us $5Make a Tip - Send me an email after so I can mention you on the show.Bitcoin: USE THIS LINK FOR ADDRESS REUSEEthereum: 0xDAb148614f22dDa800cF006Be7932eeEB75AC644Leave a Review on iTunesShare an episode with family and friendsFollow me on Twitter | YoutubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show please send me an email.Show NotesDr Corey Petty, the Chief Security Officer at Status.im, he is more than just a security officer. He is also the co-founder and co-host of the Bitcoin podcast. He has some really interesting views on communications and what it actually means to be building out a network like Bitcoin or some of the other networks that have been created afterwards, such as Ethereum or Status that focus more on the communications aspect and how that propagation of Data allows for greater freedoms and evolving society in this ever more surveillance age.What is it about working at Status and how you ended up there? You have only been there for the last two years and they have done some amazing stuff in that time.  It has been serendipitous. I left academia after finishing my PhD and doing some work in computational chemistry to pursue a blockchain career to leverage the skills I had gained during my PhD which was very data-sciencey. I have always been fascinated and heavily involved in computers from a technical perspective my whole life. When I left, I found a couple jobs in the government consulting area basically leveraging blockchain and making sure people knew what they were talking about and technical education.  My goal was to make sure that governments and regulators were looking into these things. And they didn’t have a lot of good quality resources to make good decisions about these things. My goal was to help them with this process.  The bureaucracy and how organisations work was not quite my level. I had built some hobby projects doing analysis of very large projects in the space in Ethereum; how tokens were distributed in some of the really large early ICOs and one of these was Status and I talked with Jared Carl and became friends. One day I was talking with Jared on a very different community-based project. He asked what I did and I applied for the job and got it. It has been a wonderful trip working with Status. It is exactly where I wanted to be when I left academia.  I have been very fortunate in my experience.I was never cleared or went through any of the security clearance interviews.  I did not want to go through the process or be beholden by the promises you make doing those things.  It is great for job security but I wanted to maintain my freedom in pursuing whatever I wanted to pursue and being able to say what I wanted to say it in a timely fashion. I am pretty happy I did not go through the process.In the military it