Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com Pulitzer-winning investigative tech reporter. Cybersecurity educator.
🙋🏻♀️ #opentowork
📣 https://yaelwrites.com
💌 yael@yaelwrites.com
💥 #alwaysantifascist
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Exploit Code Not People @cooperq.com Cybertiger. Senior Staff technologist at @eff.org Fellow @citizenlab.ca Board member @openarchive.bsky.social. "Noted activist security type." Anti-fascist. he/him. My skeets do not represent views of my employers ⵣ🏴 signal: cooperq.01
Scott Blake @mscottblake.bsky.social
Dylan Beattie @dylanbeatt.ie coder • speaker • musician • MS MVP • creator of @codewithrockstar.com • founder of @linebreakers.band • organiser of @ldnug.org • fun stuff: dylanbeattie.net • work stuff: ursatile.com • he/him • 🥔
open mike eagle @mike-eagle.bsky.social and then there's this
https://linktr.ee/openmikeeagle
m. redmond 🖤 @chaoticgood.gay Tired of computers. they/them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🖤✨
mauvehed @mauvehed.com ☯ Neurodivergent & Mental Health Advocate
☯ Austin Hackers (AHA!) Babysitter
☯ KØMVH (Ham Radio)
☯ DEF CON Goon (DevOps & SOC)
☯ Red Team Village Core Staff
☯ Attrition.org Staff
Mirrored at https://social.mauve.haus/@mauvehed
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
🌱 maggieappleton.com
Wes Miller @getwired.com EX-Microsoft - Research analyst at Directions on Microsoft covering identity, security, compliance, management, & Microsoft licensing. Blog: http://getwired.com
maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay it/she
investigative journalist, hacktivist, dj, award losing musician and many other things
signal: @nyancrimew.01
im THAT fucker, look me up on wikipedia
some posts may be by ryan
https://maia.crimew.gay
Jake Gold @jacob.gold Building AI infra @clor.com in SF Bay Area. Helped launch and scale Vibecode and Bluesky. Prev: Nuro, Docker, Google, and founder.
Addicted to history, computers, and open systems.
Unconditional love for all conscious life.
https://jacob.gold
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social Anthro PhD Candidate.
nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threats, heritage, nationalism, secrecy, etc.
gonzo journo
QUEER
RT/Fave/etc ≠agree
he/him
http://patreon.com/nuclearanthro
http://paypal.me/nuclearanthro
https://osf.io/46sfd/
Justin Elze @handle.invalid CTO @TrustedSec.com | Former Optiv/SecureWorks/Accuvant Labs/Redspin | Race cars
Bryson Bort 🦄🌴 @brysonbort.bsky.social 🦄
Vyrus @vyrus.bsky.social
Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
Alice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com Mad Scientist and Necromancer, she/her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
AuADHD creature of elemental internet
collector of keysmashes
used to be called Foone, before the war
San Francisco QuakeBot @earthquakebotsf.bsky.social I’m a bot real-time posting/skeeting M 1.0+ earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Built by @djcentos7.bsky.social
Security Cryptography Whatever @scwpod.bsky.social @durumcrustulum.com, @sockpuppet.org, @dadrian.io
“Freewheelin’ dynamic”.
https://securitycryptographywhatever.com
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feed/id1578405214
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Deviant Ollam ツ @deviantollam.bsky.social Philadelphian in Cascadia. Vociferous champion for Oxford commas, two spaces after a period, and ellipses. I break into buildings. 🔓
"Even if the world were ending tomorrow, I would still plant a tree." 🌲
(he/they)
emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy @emma.best Journalist and historian of intelligence agencies and hacking. Whistleblower and former hacker. Leaking at @DDoSecrets.org. Бáба-Ягá Antifa. (she/they)
Wife of @brazenqueer.bsky.social
Follow me on Mastodon https://kolektiva.social/@Mxy
P.S. Abolish ICE
Johnny Xmas @j0hnnyxm4s.johnnyxmas.net We’re sorry, but until civilization decides to begin prosecuting child molesters and cannibals, this account will no longer be capable of being kind to people. Please kindly fuck all the way off.
moloch @littlejoetables.bsky.social Offsec at OpenAI
Former Bishop Fox Red Team
Cannibal 🦙 @elcannibal.bsky.social @cannibal on Twitter
Ex medical infosec. Red team. Threat hunter. Patient safety. Locksport. Metal work. I break things. #MakeShitMonday 3Dprinting. less cyber more security. Maker, but mostly breaker.
✴️Carl✴️Cosmos✴️ @cillic.bsky.social Humanities for Hackers
Antiracist antifascist patriarchy-smashing hedonistic cis-queerish nightmare from the void.
Hot Mess.
He/they
Somewhere on the periphery of the Trans + Queer Shitpost
DEFCONMusic @defconmusicorg.bsky.social The Arts and Entertainment team for the yearly DEF CON Infosec convention on Las Vegas. Defconmusic.org | Defcon.org
Miss Jackalope @missjackalopedj.bsky.social Drum and Bass + electro + basshouse DJ // Twitch.tv/MissJackalope // Legendary Merch MissJackalope.store // DEF CON Resident DJ // YouTube.com/@missjackalope for claw games and DJ replays and Japan fun
Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com 🜗 🝒 🝲 crypto as in 'cryptography' 🝳 🝡 🜖
¹ isogenist, co-host SCWpod
² https://durumcrustulum.com, https://www.youtube.com/@durumcrustulum
rand0h @akacki.net https://wsiiax.myshopify.com / Goon / Degenerate / KD3CHT / Akacki.net / DEFCON610.org
internet freds 🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social 21st century digital attorney. cybersecurity & data counsel, privacy & compliance, FOSS, sometimes litigation; probably not your lawyer.
~~☆~~
Bridgy Fed for the fediverse @ap.brid.gy Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy/) bot user for the fediverse. To bridge your account to the fediverse, follow this account.
To ask a fediverse user to bridge their account, send their address (eg @user@instance) to this account in a chat message.
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kepano @stephango.com making @obsidian.md
DM @d-m.bsky.social Also here: https://infosec.exchange/@_dm
Infosec, Trust & Safety, but mostly screaming into the void
[ttl=14d]
HD Moore @hdm.io runZero & Metasploit
Christian @cachecat.bsky.social I'm going to My Garage to get My Toolbox and My Hammer and My Saw and My Nails to work on My Project
CellPhoneDude @ DEF CON @cellphonedude.bsky.social
Grifter @grifter801.bsky.social Threat Hunting & DFIR, Hacker, Geek, DEF CON & Black Hat CFP Review Board Member, DEF CON Contest/Events/Demo Labs Dept. Head, Black Hat Staff, DC801 Founder
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social Boffin, flâneur, ailouroboskos. Kubrick homage self-portraitist. Also cryptography, human rights, and stuff. Founded PGP, Blackphone, others; worked for DEC, Apple, SRI, ACLU, EFF, others. Was ShmooCon program chair for all twenty conferences.
Del The Funky Homosapien @delhiero.bsky.social Oakland raider, Richmond rap practitioner.
Hiero • Deltron 3030 • thegoodnews. 🤘🏾
CypherCon @cyphercon.bsky.social Wisconsin Technology & Hacker Conference, year 9 returning April 1-2, 2026 downtown Milwaukee! Https://CypherCon.com
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org Full of passionate intensity.
Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social Breaker of software, responder of incidents, IANS Faculty, VP R&D Hunter Strategy.
MC Frontalot @mc.frontalot.com 579th-Greatest Rapper (the World's)
https://frontalot.com
Fiveinchpixie @fiveinchpixie.bsky.social Infosec wanderer. Nerd herder. Cat person. In-line skater.
John Strand @strandjs.bsky.social I do cool Infosec stuff with cool people.
I will light the way by the bridges I burn.
rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
@gdead.bsky.social @gdead.bsky.social Founder (yikes!), supports @heidishmoo each year as she wrangles @shmoocon, totally done with that other site
lintile @lintile.lol now available as a browser extension
Jayson E. Street💜🤗💜 @jaysonstreet.bsky.social Hacker - Helper - Human
JaysonEStreet.com
Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com I used break things and write detailed reports but now I'm management. Rapid Prototyper. Maker. Apprentice Knifemaker. Sometimes I try to help explain social situations to dudes.
Trans rights are human rights and Black lives matter.
I love you.
Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Ian Foster @lanrat.bsky.social Researcher, Hacker, Programmer, Geek, DNS Historian (http://dns.coffee)
Malware Unicorn @malwareunicorn.bsky.social @Straiker. Ex-Microsoft. Ex-Meta RedTeam, Ex-Endgame, Ex Fireeye. malwareunicorn.org
thomas🌦️ @zemn.me https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/zemn.me teaching computers to kiss @openai
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
Cassidy @cassidoo.co Making memes, dreams, & software!
Sr. Director of Dev Advocacy at GitHub. Married to a dweeb and mom to a nerdy toddler + baby combo. She/Her ✝️ CHI 🏠
Subscribe to my newsletter!
cassidoo.co/newsletter
Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me Civic technologist and engineering manager. Founder @govtrack.us. More active at https://mastodon.joshdata.me/@josh.
Straithe @straithe.com maker and researcher with a penchant for artistic chaos
Ontario, Canada
she/her
straithe.com
Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social debugging, v: the process of inserting printf statements into code until one's errors reveal themselves
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Phildini, since young times @phildini.net I make @civic.band, the largest repository of civic meeting data for the US and Canada.
I also run startups sometimes.
Nick Steele @kaiju.bsky.social Digital identity bad boy. Working on Identifying the Robots. Previously 1Password, Cisco, Duo, Etsy. Full of bees. Author on CXP. Contributor on WebAuthn. Chair of the FIDO Technical Working Group. he/him/shiz
Adam Johnson @adamj.eu 🐴 @djangoproject.com blogger and contributor
✍️ Author of three books on Django and Git
🍕 Django London co-organizer
🇬🇧 London / 🇵🇹 Lisbon
yomna @rival-elf.bsky.social phone radio security, art, abstract math, weird fashion :: advisory board member @eff.org :: she/her :: posts my own :: https://yomna.net
Xe @xeiaso.net Some nerd that uses computers | Blogger with 500-ish articles at https://xeiaso.net | @theprincessxena on the bird website | CEO @techaro.lol | Minors DNI
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Mugwump Jones @mugwumpjones.bsky.social Muppet and consumer of aged memes.
@gillis57.bsky.social @gillis57.bsky.social Security, Ham Radio Quotes, Fire junkie living in south alabama. Lapsed Journalist.
Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social Responsible for covid data + analytics that touched 200+ million American lives. Husband. Dad. Doctor. Longtime techie. Lifelong learner. Twitter + Threads expat (@DataDrivenMD)
Russ @dontlookbehindyou.bsky.social
Marc Rogers @cjunky.bsky.social Ramblings of a Mad Englishman: Hacker @ BBC's Real Hustle & Mr Robot. Head of Sec @ DEF CON. Founder @ CTI-League, Ransomware Taskforce, w00w00, CDC NSF, (He/Him).
Also
Twitter @marcwrogers
Mastodon cj@chaos.social
Micah Lee @micahflee.com Doing what I can to keep activists, journalists, and researchers safe and productive — writing at https://micahflee.com — author of HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS https://hacksandleaks.com — signal: micah.01
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Sam Davison @sam-davison.bsky.social Security, Privacy, Trust & Safety, and Fraud Engineering at your favorite and least favorite consumer tech companies
Soldier of FORTRAN @mainframed767.bsky.social Mainframe pentester extraordinaire. I'm not really here though. Catch me over on mastodon @mainframed767@infosec.exchange
Enjoy hell site 2.0
np0 @np0.bsky.social noproto
Eric @esb.lol Chicago • Bluesky team
pingucat @pingucat.bsky.social I do artwork for hackers and throw parties.
ackmage @hermit.sh computer(s)
will you die as you are told? who will you obey?
cursed words spat out by a seething illusion? or the truth within your own soul?
herm.it
github.com/deepseagirl
google dorks @thedorkweb.bsky.social
artwork @halfpotion.bsky.social
(she/any)
SteveD3 (Steve Ragan) @steved3.io Father. Grandpa. Geek. Hacker. Former journalist. Security researcher. CMO @BSidesLV.org Member: Curated Intel
R00t Killah @r00tkillah.bsky.social red @ Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ☁️🐚@⚖️; hacker; opinions my own; he/him
- D @drraid.bsky.social @drraid.bsky.social
LixMK @lix.mk I’ve never muddled a cherry in my fucking life.
Matt King @syncsrc.bsky.social This account does not reflect the opinions of any government, company, organization, or person.
Bryce Wray @brycewray.com Nerdy advocate for static websites and the tools that build them. Inveterate supporter of the Oxford comma. Old enough to remember when Americans were proud to be anti-fascist. Admitted Apple fanboy — don’t judge — but also very pro-Linux.
MiKAL KHiLL @howcouldyoudothisto.me From somewhere in the NC mountains.
Music, wrestling, computers, existential dread.
Current projects: New Mikal kHill LP and scoring the game PROJECT GATEWAY.
Member of The TroubleShooters, Two Weeks Notice, Mutual Assurance.
https://linktr.ee/howcouldyou
netspooky @vacci.ne knuck if you buck
https://n0.lol
int eighty @int0x80.com Hacker. Rapper in Dual Core. Rapper in The TroubleShooters. Black Lives Matter. He/him.
Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com Dog butler to Indy, Darby, & Kell. Former USMC 0341. Chicago Tavern style. You may know me from years of MSFT. Or not. Was @nerdpyle before the bad times. Eat shït, nazis
Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social I work on the Windows engineering team at Microsoft and help with feedback for Start menu, Settings, taskbar, input + more
You can find me on most of the other social media apps including Twitter and reddit with the same account name @jenmsft
Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com cybersecurity weather man. scanning the horizons for cloudy cyber. Expert at nothing except computer rubbish. Anti-ransomware since 2015.
Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert RC F'13, F2'17
Cryptogopher / Go cryptography maintainer
Professional open source maintainer
https://filippo.io / https://github.com/FiloSottile
https://mkcert.dev / https://age-encryption.org
https://sunlight.dev / https://filippo.io/newsletter
Whitney Merrill @wbm312.bsky.social I nudge people to care about privacy and security. CPO/DPO. Privacy/infosec lawyer. Hacker. Fighting for privacy, digital civil liberties & the users. Ex @EA @FTC |my views are my own. I used to post on Twitter at @wbm312.
Kelly Shortridge @shortridge.bsky.social software resilience, cybersecurity, complex systems | chief product officer @fastly.com | nyc
“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.”
kellyshortridge.com
@swagitda_ on Twitter