Brian | CISO @brainspasms.bsky.social Chief Information Security Officer of the LooneyBin™
BSides Peoria @bsidespeoria.bsky.social Saturday, October 24th, 2026 - Bradley University - Peoria, Illinois
Official Account for BSides Peoria
Organized by the Illinois Cyber Foundation
OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social PAI enjoyer, OSINT guy @truth.bsky.social , my views/freezing cold takes are my own. Standard spiel about not endorsing retweets, likes, and comments.
The Intel Crab @intelcrab.bsky.social Open source investigator. An actual human. Not a real crab, believe it or not. 
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com cannot stress enough that I am not the Train guy. cohost, @whatatimepod.bsky.social
whatatimepod.com
Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
writer/book shelver/final girl
books: DEVILS UNTO DUST, MISSING PRESUMED DEAD
Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social Founding member of AIIA. Scientist/Engineer, skeptic, former FBI agent. Infointegrity.us. A character in "Easy Money" by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman. Once more a grad student (MS, Data Science) Board member at NCAS.org
John Hammond @johnhammond.bsky.social Hacker. Friend. Cybersecurity Researcher at Huntress.
- C Cybergibbons @cybergibbons.bsky.social
gabsmashh @gabsmashh.bsky.social security engineer | 1L JD Candidate | NYU alum |
B1gt1dd13s @bentleyaudrey.bsky.social Tech & Humor 🪬
Lina @d0rkph0enix.bsky.social Infosec dork, boxer, poker player, dog owner/operator, spiller of things. Cars, vidya games, general cooking are my jam. Chiefs and Royals devotee. #SecKC
Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.bsky.social thedarktangent@defcon.social
TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com 🚀rockit network engineer
👩🏼💻ethernet fangirl
🛜 weird use cases & silly tech!
💌 tracket@tracketpacer.com
🌎 tracketpacer.com
Brian Brushwood @handle.invalid Scam School (Discovery), Hacking the System (NatGeo), Modern Rogue, World’s Greatest Con
hackerfantastic.crypto @hackerfantastic.bsky.social Co-Founder https://hacker.house cyber security assurance & hacker training ~ ISBN9781119561453 ~ a book on professional hacking. Contact for competitive quotes on cyber security projects. 
mbg @mbrg0.bsky.social Breaking AI. Building @zenitysec, lead @owaspnocode, columnist @DarkReading
aNullValue - Drew Stemen @anullvalue.bsky.social IT Consultant. HackerTracker PM.
cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social The Ringleader
big famous microblogger
pet account reactionary
flamboyant wrecker
goddess of uselessness
antisocial influencer
[she/her] Texan in MA. Adonis' mom
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
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.
Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me Security Curmudgeon for Microsoft .NET
Do you really think work wants my social media opinions?
Not nice, but kind - @medus4.com
🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 
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.
bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social i’m not a girl, not interested in being polite or cisgender. jewish, anarchist, still punk, in my daddy era.
this is not a place of honor.
no highly esteemed thoughts are skeeted here.
ngl.link/armageddon1312
don’t explain, you’ll only make it worse
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social SWer Rights • Harm Reduction • Repro Justice • Thanatology • Anarchist • Fiber Art • Hacker Groupie • MaggieMayhem.Com
kat cosgrove @kat.lol village sorcerer @villagesql.com
local bigfoot enthusiast
kubernetes steering committee, release team subproject lead, sig docs tech lead, uwubernetes, colorado springs via memphis
she/they
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
bat 🦇🌻 @mzbat.bsky.social Security Consultant & Founder, Sonar Security | Red Siege, VMware Tanzu, NASA GSFC, Apple, 18F | art, lego, board games, comics, cute animals |🧛🏻♀️⛵️
Beau Woods @beauwoods.com hack all the cybers
Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org DDoSecrets is a 501c3 journalist non-profit devoted to publishing and archiving leaks and other data in the public interest.
DDoSecrets.org
LibraryOfLeaks.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Denial_of_Secrets
DonorBox.org/ddosecrets
DEF CON @defcon.bsky.social The world’s premier hacker conference. Serving the global hacker community since 1993.
Defcon.org
Forum.defcon.org
Defcon.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
Chris Krebs @thekrebscycle.bsky.social Aka @c_c_krebs over there 
Center for Cybersecurity | Bradley University @bradleycybersec.bsky.social Academic center promoting cybersecurity research and education at Bradley University. Peoria, IL. Home of the Bradley Red Team. Host of BSides Peoria. https://bradley.edu/cybersecurity
Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social Sci-fi author (http://amzn.com/dp/B079VWYZNF)
Co-founder of the US Liberal Party (@liberalpartyusa.org)
I support freedom! #NAFO 🇺🇦🇬🇪🇹🇼
Opinions are my own.
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/
Eve Sandwich Pope, Most Muscular Pontiff Arc @sandwichpope.com (she/her 🏳️⚧️) Founder of the Church of Sandwichism. Prairie-timer.
Author: Broken Down Ghost Town, https://evetara.com
Luna's Goddess. Heidi's Princess. Symphony's Biggest fan.
Backxwash @backxwash.bsky.social Album 2025
https://linktr.ee/backxwash
Rebecca Gault @phoenixforce.bsky.social PhD student @ UofG.
queer AP player & academic. specialising in lesbian fantasy & horror.
co-host and siren call of Out To Get You, probably posting about women’s wrestling
https://linktr.ee/phoenixfcrce
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)
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair.
I hack things and build community.
Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3mrv36uo4pc2a
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. Air National Guard (ret). Founder of Country First
Adamkinzinger.komi.io
Adamkinzinger.com
Raffi_RC @raffic.bsky.social 🇨🇦 troubadour. children's champion. ecology. Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring. beluga grads. 
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
Lisa Forte @lisaforte.bsky.social Cyber security, climbing, caving and diving! 💜
The You You Are Bot @theyouyouare.computer Behold, social media, a circus, truly a sight,
Spaceships in rich guy's plans, taking imaginary flight.
Keeping us awake at night, in a constant scroll of fright,
Yet, in the grand scheme, it's less impactful than a kite.
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
deray @deray.bsky.social 
Volker Weber @vowe.net Author. I explain difficult concepts in simple ways.
Posts are ephemeral. I do not block. Also, I don’t argue. → https://xkcd.com/386
📬 https://signal.org → vowe.01
📌 Bessungen, New York, Darmstadt
🦋 Joined 05-Mar-2023 as user #2236
Raphael Satter @raphae.li Say hi: https://raphae.li or on Signal: raphaelsatter.01
Dave Troy @davetroy.com Publisher and Editor, America 2.0. Baltimore/Washington. Pilot, chef, coder. america2.news Signal: davetroy.69
Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social Wild bird rehab + emu antics + the occasional yak
Mostly birds, but anything can happen (and usually does)
Art‑funded wildlife rescue • Building our region’s first wildlife hospital one weird day at a time - MN
Foxloft.com - Vultureconservancy.org
Raina Telgemeier @goraina.bsky.social Cartoonist & tea enthusiast 
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social Anthro PhD Candidate
nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threat, heritage, nationalism, secrecy, etc
QUEER
multiply neurodivergent
RP/Fave/etc ≠agree
he/him
patreon.com/nuclearanthro
paypal.me/nuclearanthro
https://OSF.io/46sfd/
Farhad Manjoo @fmanjoo.bsky.social Formerly a columnist at New York Times, Slate. generally wonderful person.
Jenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social NPR Correspondent covering technology and national security.
Send me a tip: Text JennaMcLaughlin.54 on Signal from personal (nonwork) devices.
Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social Covering tech at Bloomberg from London
Signal: @oliviasolon.13
Email: osolon2@bloomberg.net
Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social No NFTs, No A.I.
linktr.ee/sarahcandersen
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com Award-winning science-fantasy & edu comic creator | www.shingworks.com
Dorstenia & Aristolochia enthusiast | VP of Crowdfunding at Vault Comics
Gently re-seeds under ideal conditions
Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social Writer/lecturer on Russian influence & information warfare | lead writer of greatpower.us | Be excellent to each other
Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social The Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) is a non-profit organization that promotes wolf conservation by teaching about wolves and their role in our world.
nywolf.org
Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches
Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy
Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum
Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
Grady Booch @booch.com scientist, storyteller, philosopher
computingthehumanexperience.com
Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Advocate for freedom of information, open governance, & democracy. Lover of the Oxford Comma, hater of hubris. Recovering journalist. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. https://civic-texts.ghost.io
Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com Comics? On the INTERNET?? On WWW DOT BSKY DOT APP??
Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com Editor in chief of MIT Technology Review. Formerly SF Bureau Chief at Buzzfeed News. Formerly Wired. Formerly @mat on twitter. Discos in Frisco
Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang.
Tell me a story. (Ideally through a non-work device using Signal. Find me via my username sheera.11)
Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social 📚 Author, NYT bestseller FIRED UP
🔥 Organizer, Firestarter University
🏫 Founder emerita, @momsdemand
firedupbook.com 🔥🔥🔥
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆
"a merchant, selling microdoses of pleasant fictions" - tyler
• Goodfeeds @goodfeeds.co
• Sky․app @getsky.app
thanked by darth july 20, 2023
📍Austin, TX
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
Yashar.substack.com
Twitter: @yashar
IG/Threads @yasharali
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
Patrick LaForge @palafo.bsky.social “There is a true person of no rank who is always coming and going through the portals of your face.” — Linji Yixuan
Writer, reader, watcher, cyclist, walker, meditator, enjoyer of things, ex-nyt, he/him
http://palafo.org. Signal: Palafo.38
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)
Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org How do you do, fellow squids? 🌊 We're your frondly Aquarium with a mission to inspire conservation of the ocean. https://www.montereybayaquarium.org
Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social Historian, SUNY Brockport
Editor, The Carryall thecarryall.org
Cultural criticism, culturerover.net
The Republic of Rock (OUP, 2013), republicofrock.net
Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net
Union, uupinfo.org
More, michaeljkramer.net
Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org We work to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial injustice. Led by Bryan Stevenson. Creators of @legacysites.eji.org
Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org Straight-shooting information and analysis at the intersection of national security, law, and policy.
Support Lawfare at https://www.lawfaremedia.org/support
Zack Bornstein @zackbornstein.bsky.social Emmy-losing Writer/Director (#Shrinking, @nbcSNL, @Netflix, @Hulu, @Dreamworks, @JimmyKimmelLive, #StrangePlanet, @NewYorker)
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and are worth looking up.
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
https://sambiddle.com
John Gruber @gruber.foo I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social He/him. Dad, husband, immigration lawyer (but doesn’t work here). Pro Popular Front, pro Sewer Socialism, anti borders. Upper Midwest Nationalist. Mostly posts food, bad history jokes, kid stuff, and about the Minnesota Goddamn Timberwolves.
Mauricio Schneider @mau.fyi Pronounced "mr·ee·see·ow".
Full-stack developer by night, compliance and infosec nerd by day. ADHDer.
Chilean 🇨🇱 in PNW 🇺🇸.
Also: photography, dogs, electric vehicles, guitar playing, outdoors, MTBing
Bill Burnam @stilgar.bsky.social DevOps Network Engineer | #Networking | #CLN #CiscoVIP | #CiscoChampion 2014-26 | CCNP Enterprise | #StarTrek #Dune | Busy Husband and Dad of 3 | Posts are my own.
Elsa Birch @elsabirch.bsky.social Living in the SF cloud and engineering in the data cloud. Also: plants, coffee, cooking, a chemeng microbio phd, she/her, via Portland and Boulder. Are these views even mine? We just don’t know. Same handle most other spots.
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social #nerdpatient0
craigslist founder
https://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/