Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable -- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -- .ooM
Hacker / Archaeologist / Gadabout / Professional Something-or-Other. Anti-fascist and Pro-science. As the old axiom says, reality has a liberal bias.
Nazis need to be punched.
Emmanuel Goldstein 🇺🇦 @goldste.in Editor of 2600 Magazine
Coordinator: Hackers On Planet Earth conferences
Host: Off The Hook & Off The Wall radio shows
etc.
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)
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, container escape artist, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3l3frqadlo32h
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com threads.com/@malwaretech
https://linkedin.com/in/malwaretech
https://marcushutchins.com
Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social Them: You're the father of the xbox!
Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent.
theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee
Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social Founder & CEO LutaSecurity @payequitynow MIT&Harvard visiting scholar, @MasonNatSec fellow, 1/2 Chamoru, 1/2 Greek all-American hacker
Katelyn 🅅 Medusfour @medus4.com Activist, Hacker cosplayer, Artist. Data economy abolitionist.
@cdc_pulpit Sinfluencer, Head of Humanity @ Veilid, designer of weird shirts at hack.xxx
I love gross terrifying things. Because I am one
Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires.
ICS DFIR at Dragos, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts my own. Enby. 🏳️🌈
Marcia Hofmann @marciahofmann.com Digital rights lawyer and writer. Former Twitter, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, US-UK Fulbright.
Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social Security, privacy, respect. Was the Twitter CISO until it was terrible. Now LinkedIn CISO. they/them
adafruit @adafruit.com Engineer - Founder of Adafruit - Brooklyn, NY USA - Manufacturer, open-source hardware, certified Minority and Woman-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) https://adafruit.com - support https://forums.adafruit.com & order/customer help support@adafruit.com
the grugq @thegrugq.bsky.social
tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish at different times:
haxx0r in cDc
PhD in using people for ML and vice versa
"theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie
at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive
&c music, politics, nonsense
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
DilDog 🅅 @dildog.l0pht.com Tech Dysangelist
cDc/hack.xxx/Veilid
Support Veilid! Badge: 🅅 www.veilid.com
Merch at: @hack.xxx
he/him/"hey buddy"
TJ @senatorjohn.bsky.social i run uncertain.fm 🏴☠️
i write code that makes radio 🤖
i play the music at Boston Bruins games 🐻
he/him📍aquatown/boston
@uncertain.fm / @worbler.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
Heather Adkins @argv.bsky.social VP Security at Google. Co-Chair Cybersafety Review Board, Co-Author Building Secure and Reliable Systems. r00t. Medieval historian.
Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social Gray haired gray hat. Co-founder Veracode. Former L0pht security researcher. Builds tools to find and fix vulnerabilities in code at scale.
@halvarflake.bsky.social @halvarflake.bsky.social
Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social
The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW @cultdeadcow.com www.cultdeadcow.com
R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Musician/Lyricist, Big DADA You remember MONDO 2000 so do I
https://rusirius.bandcamp.com/ better still
Adam J O’Donnell @adamjodonnell.bsky.social Deputy CISO @ Stripe. I like art. cDc ❤️🫵
Jun34u @jun34u.bsky.social Alaskan in Los Angeles. Chaotic idealist.
Hacker, Writer, and Game Theorist
cDc Cultist
Forever Script Kiddie
She/They 🏳️🌈🏴☠️
Dino A. Dai Zovi @ddz.bsky.social I drink amari and I know things. $ddz
LMDDGTFY: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dino+dai+zovi
NYC/BK
Beto O’Rourke @betoorourke.bsky.social Powered by People
@lodrina.bsky.social @lodrina.bsky.social "liberal arts section of the computer underground" -j. menn
2600 - The Hacker Quarterly @2600.com Since 1984, 2600 Magazine has published the hacker perspective and documented the development of the hacking community. In addition to the magazine, we have a weekly radio show ("Off The Hook") and a biennial conference (Hackers On Planet Earth - HOPE).
Walter Scheirer @wjscheirer.bsky.social Prof. @notredame.bsky.social. IEEE Computer Society PAMI TC Chair Emeritus. Computer Vision Foundation CTO. Artificial Intelligence + Digital Humanities + History of Technology. wjscheirer.com
Hackers On Planet Earth 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @hope.net HOPE Conference
The New Yorker Hotel
August 14-16, 2026
NY, NY
https://hope.net- M Peiter “Mudge” Zatko @mudge.bsky.social DARPA/Google/Stripe/L0pht/Twitter/…/DARPA/[redacted]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Zatko
obscure - cDc 🅅 @obscure.bsky.social I am angry, I am ill, and I am as ugly as sin. My irritability keeps me alive and kicking. I know the meaning of life, it doesn’t help me a bit.
cDc Cultee
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
Space Rogue @spacerog.bsky.social I fight for the user. | L0pht Heavy Industries - ATStake - Whacked Mac Archives - Hacker News Network - Cyber Squirrel 1 | Semgrep
Martin Roesch @mroesch.bsky.social 👨💼Head of Cloud @ Vectra AI
⛵️Sailor
🔭Amateur Astronomer
📷(Very) Amateur Photographer
🐷 The Snort Guy
📍 Annapolis
Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp Doomscroller avant la lettre. This account is in English, public replies in other languages will be hidden.
Occasional posts in Dutch on @rop.nl and in German on @deutsch.rop.nl
jcran @cybe.rs knowledge seeker
deb kavaler @debdebdeb.bsky.social Crypto Wallet Recovery Emergency Responder & Old School Hacker Den Mom. All the rumors are true. (usual disclaimers definitely apply) DMs read.
Karen Marcelo @k0re.bsky.social DorkbotSF founder, Survival Research Labs tele-obliterator and robot choreographer
Kore @kore.bsky.social Legendary Hacker, Security Hero, Coffee aficionado. I love Sci-Fi, even terrible Sci-Fi. We live in the future, from AI to space travel, we've come so far, yet I still find myself telling my cats about your bullshit.
You may also know me from Clubhouse.
snowchyld @snowchyld.org Millionaire
Movie God
Rock Star
Muppet
https://thegreatestpictureintheworld.com
Knarphie @knar.ph That guy you met at Pumpcon that one time. Hangover coach. 'Terrible thought' leader.
Matt Kelly @mattkelly.bsky.social Owner, Cool Beans! Magazine and Records
Stacy Thayer @stacythayer.bsky.social Professor of Cyberpsychology, Ph.D. & MBA., Tech Event Planner, former founder of SOURCE Conf, partner, mom of twins, LOTR fan, lover of video games, and lifelong learner
FR3Q0UT @fr3q0ut.bsky.social It was 1995, we were in a basement that was full of computers and hackers, listening to the dawn of techno on obsolete technology.
Seanability @sdmco.dev Philadelphia | r00t
Don't assume I know why I do things.
A Dwarf Named Warren @oxbloodruffin.bsky.social Hacktivist | Writer | Antibody- T Thomas Dell @tdell.bsky.social
QuiJohn @quijohn.bsky.social 🧑💻 🎸 ♟️
🌈 ❤️💜💙
Protect Trans Kids 🏳️⚧️
Adam Prato @sirsyko.bsky.social Sentimental Gentleman
https://linktr.ee/adamprato
Manages @wcb.bsky.social Wing Chun Brotherhood
Artimage - Lucas Nelson @artimage.bsky.social Proud geek; hacker turned VC.
Trotsky [+] @apacilli.bsky.social [+] History Enthusiast 🇺🇦
Victoria Palmer @victoriapalmer.bsky.social A girl with no edge. Some call me vixi, others do not call at all. You will find unpopular opinions, pop culture trivia, tech, gaming (and yes I was Juliet)
Talk tech, history, Bravo, news.. Documentarian/Product Owner/Project manager on [redacted]
Paul @pnash.bsky.social
Peg McMahan-Nottingham @ophie.bsky.social ai hands are weird.
jen @jennymarie.bsky.social 617, 215, 207
i make webpages & other things, see www.regarding.com.
Larry W. Cashdollar @larry0.bsky.social Principal Security researcher at Akamai. Exploit Coder. Research covered by Slashdot, ZDNet, arstechnica, MSN + more also a Mitre CVE CNA with 200+ CVEs
bensherman @bensherman.bsky.social All typos are intentional jokes. My opinions are not my own.
Harrison Page @harrison.page Since 1969 · Made in San Francisco
https://harrison.page • https://harrison.photography
mali @malipdx.bsky.social Yarn 🧶
Wildlife Rehab | Birbs | Native Plants Portland Footy
Protect Trans Kids | She/Her
Aj Rez 🗿 @aj.reznor.com Content Warning: Warning, Content
Purveyor Of Spectacular And Arcane Esoterica
Elder God || Despondent Luddite
"Anti-Right" > "Left" // 💙💛 NAFO Adjacent // BTTCMF // #714
S :: ajr.242
3 :: HH4728XS
V :: @ajr242
Longform @ https://buymeacoffee.com/ajrez
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social Too many hobbies, master of none.
Ralph Logan @rkl.bsky.social
ℵ₁ @aleph1.underground.org
Matt @matteesk.bsky.social Some people say I'm a cowboy - actually wait, no one says I'm a cowboy and I intend to keep it that way.
@resident.denizencity.com @resident.denizencity.com
Ludi @ludixst.bsky.social Old infosec nerd
Mark Ashley @markashley.bsky.social I like Stuff. Marauders Map researcher. Spends his day reducing entropy in all its forms. Follows people, and cows, who are outstanding in their field.
Window Snyder @windowsnyder.bsky.social
Ben May @benmay.bsky.social Sr. Research Analyst, Columbia University Cancer Center
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ben-May-2
Mister Axehandle @mraxehandle.bsky.social Hey there.
und1sk0 @und1sk0.bsky.social The Original Und1sk0 K1dd - 1994 - UPT
https://und1sk0.substack.com/
Neal Stephenson @nealstephenson.bsky.social Maker of books and other things
Chris Eng @ceng.bsky.social Still deciding if I even like social media any more.
Alex Stamos @stamos.org CPO/CSO of Corridor.dev, teaching at Stanford.
Cameo Wood @cameowood.com Work: @CharmingStranger.com
Buy: https://PointReyesMyriorama.com
Watch: https://RealArtists.Film
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
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Baptiste Robert @fs0c131y.com CEO @ Predicta Lab | French Security Researcher, Ethical Hacking, OSINT
Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social This space left intentionally blank.
Dennis @dennisf.bsky.social Gentleman of leisure. Legendary wedding guest. I wrote two of the best books you haven't read. Friend of hackers. https://decipher.sc
Matt Blaze @mattblaze.org Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. So-called expert on election security and a few other things. Slow photographer. RF nerd. Occasionally blogs at https://mattblaze.org/blog
Glenn Kurtzrock ☠️🐄 @glennkurtzrock.com
Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social Washington Post alum covering hacking, disinformation and what’s left of privacy. Author of books on the Cult of the Dead Cow, organized criminal hacking, and Napster. Pulitzer co-finalist 2024. Signal joemenn.01
Brian Knappenberger @brianknappenberger.bsky.social Filmmaker/Director. 'Internet's Own Boy' and recently the Netflix TURNING POINT series. #documentary
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0460534/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
www.luminantmedia.com
John Threat @johnthreat.bsky.social Director • Hacker • Futurist • Solarpunk • Writer • Film • OSINT : Wired Mag Cover, 60 Minutes, etc / Short List: / Visions 2030 / PS1-Moma / (redacted) Futures
bellum @jawnaday.bsky.social That tim guy from philly who posts little to no content. Security, privacy, surfer, runner, geowonk.
"the collapse/jackpot has already happened; it's just not evenly distributed, yet..."
Slava Ukraini! 🌻
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.
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Jennifer Granick @granick.bsky.social Personal account. Former ACLU lawyer. From New Jersey. Living in San Francisco. New College of Florida alum. Newfie owner.
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
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Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.bsky.social thedarktangent@defcon.social
Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy Founder of DEF CON & Black Hat. Maintainer of infocon.org.
Member of the UK Gov Cybersecurity Advisory Board & The Council on Foreign Relations.
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