Stephan Wiefling @swiefling.de 🔑 Usable Security (USec) & Authentication Research
💼 USec Consultant @ Vodafone | Adjunct Professor | Past: Meta
🎓 Dr.-Ing. (Ruhr University Bochum) | CISSP
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Chris Merkel @chrismerkel.bsky.social cybersecurity leader, teller of cautionary tales, career dev helper
Professional alt, unprofessional posts.
Deep Cut Industry Shitposts on Masto: @chrismerkel@infosec.exchange
The Voice of Cyber @handle.invalid Cybersecurity & Infosec | Gov, Risk & Compliance | Project & Risk Mgmt | Workforce Training | Cisco & CompTIA instructor | AmericanMensa | Posts are mine
Codebender_Cate @codebendercate.com Mother | INTP-T | Cyber-BASc | Former US Army | Xbox Ambassadors | Gamer | WGU Cyber Club | ΟΣΣ | Cyber competitor | CSIE in progress (1/4) | Posts are mine
John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social FPS is my DNA. Working on a new shooter. Find Romero Games at https://t.co/d7iJN1tvGy
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shenetworks @shenet.works Networking • Hacking • Hacking Networks (she/her)
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ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
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Politico @politico.com Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social Catholic theologian, M.Div. Theology Department at DePaul College Prep, Chronicler of all things Catholic. Pope Leo XIV. Vatican analyst.
Dr. Joanna Ellis @drjoanna.bsky.social PhD in analytical chemistry 🏳️🌈 NYC/NJ
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org O͖̺͊̕͡ͅfficial bluesky for realhackhistory YouTube channel & blog, skeeting the #history of phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as portrayal of hackers in media. I do some threat intel & OSINT. No AI used. Hobbyist #skystorian.
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Phrack Zine @phrack.org since 1985
https://phrack.org
Dirk-jan @dirkjanm.io Hacker at outsidersecurity.nl. Researches Entra ID, AD and occasionally Windows security. I write open source security tools and do blogs/talks to educate others on these topics. Blog: dirkjanm.io
Haxbits @haxbits.bsky.social Artist, Autist, Ally
Long Form Stuff: https://haxbits.org
Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf Infosec. Professor. Studies Conflict, Cyber, and Influence Operations. Also, Emergency Management, Community Resilience and Weather. Optimist. Christian, but not a jerk about it. Fella from way back. Tries to be a helper. He/Him
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Decision Desk HQ @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social Fast and reliable results and analysis for elections at every level, from federal to local. Find out more: https://linktr.ee/decisiondeskhq
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
John Carpenter @thehorrormaster.bsky.social Filmmaker and Composer
Theofficialjohncarpenter.com
@stormkingcomics.bsky.social
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
Emmanuel Goldstein 🇺🇦 @goldste.in Editor of 2600 Magazine
Coordinator: Hackers On Planet Earth conferences
Host: Off The Hook & Off The Wall radio shows
etc.
Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social Fighting for Truth & Justice | Ranking Member: @robertgarcia.house.gov
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social Security & Privacy. Data Protection. Research & Development. Engineering. Analyst. Policy. W3C. Consultant. Author. King’s College London/War Studies. me@lukaszolejnik.com
lukaszolejnik.com/books
blog.lukaszolejnik.com
techletters.substack.com
Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com Immigrant. VP Security Intelligence @Forescout, Co-founder @RespectInSec. Board @vaultree, Cybersecurity Futurist, Researcher, Award-winning writer/producer. He/Him. Pussy in bio.
Substack - Ferguson.ink
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social 
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social DC reporter for Reuters on crime, justice and investigations. Data, documents and "convoluted KGB style back-door" stuff. Lawyer, but not yours. 202-527-9709, brad.heath@tr.com
David DiMolfetta @ddimolfetta.bsky.social Nextgov/FCW cybersecurity + intelligence reporter. Tips: ddimolfetta@govexec.com Signal: @ djd.99 X/Twitter: @ddimolfetta
The Associated Press @apnews.com Advancing the power of facts, globally 🌎
PIVOTcon @pivotcon.bsky.social Threat Research Conference in Malaga, Spain, 6-8 May 2026
#StayTuned #ComingSoon #PIVOTcon #PIVOTcon26
https://pivotcon.org
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Raphael Satter @raphae.li Say hi: https://raphae.li or on Signal: raphaelsatter.01
Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert @geomys.org founder / RC F'13, F2'17
Cryptogopher / Go cryptography maintainer
https://filippo.io / https://github.com/FiloSottile
https://mkcert.dev / https://age-encryption.org
https://sunlight.dev / https://filippo.io/newsletter
Brody @brody-n77.bsky.social Cybersecurity, Battletech, and Sci-Fi.
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)
Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com Founder of ONEST | Global Affairs Analyst
Fact-first reporting on diplomacy, geopolitics & global affairs.
Read: onestnetwork.com
Videos: youtube.com/@onestnetwork
Support my work: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY3cw7QS8Wy4kM04Le3e01?ref=onestnetwork.com
Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social CTO of Microsoft Azure, author of novels Rogue Code, Zero Day and Trojan Horse, Windows Internals, Sysinternals tools. Opinions are my own.
George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social AWS S3 & UC San Diego professor
Building networks and systems that enable high-performance, scalable, and sustainable computing and storage.
https://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~gmporter
Stacy Cay 🏳️⚧️ @stacycay.bsky.social stacycay.com/links
Katherine Long @klong.bsky.social Investigations reporter at the Wall Street Journal, via Business Insider and The Seattle Times. katherine.long@wsj.com. Send tips on Signal: longka.38
Julian-Ferdinand Vögele @julianferdinand.bsky.social Threat Research @ Recorded Future. Previously @ Security Research Labs. He/Him. 🏳️🌈
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social UFW - fighting for farm workers since 1962. Sí Se Puede!®
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
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
Jeremiah Robinson @jrobinit.com Derpy dog dad that does cyber security to pay for kibble.
theBigBadMe @thebigbadme.bsky.social Hacker, musician, lesson learner, pro bono political activist - Nazi Stomper
Follow-back not necessary.
pfp shirt by my kiddo
Mihai Maruseac @mihai.page Building AGI with Privacy and Security at OpenAI.
Previously: ML Supply chain security @ Google OSS Security Team (model signing, GUAC).
Previously: TensorFlow Security & OSS (@ Google)
Previously: Haskell+differential privacy+ML @ LeapYear
cactuscon @cactuscon.com Arizona's hacker con. CactusCon 14: Feb 6-7, 2026 in beautiful Mesa, AZ. https://cactuscon.com + LinkedIn, X, Mastodon
kuzushi @kuzushi.bsky.social I am the co-founder of @cactuscon | ex @bishopfox ex @spiderlabs | currently pursuing a phd at UdeG in ML & OffSec. https://sensecurity.io
slayer of applications | not a super villain
Uncle Joe @sydseter.com Co-leader OWASP Cornucopia. If you like what we do for open source, visit our code repository https://github.com/OWASP/cornucopia and give us a star ⭐
🌈 «Difference is of the essence of humanity» 🦄 – John Hume
#appsec #owasp #cornucopia #threatmodeling
CyberLarry @cyberlarry.bsky.social Larry and I are re-training in the field of cybersecurity. We'll be posting about things we've learned during our venture... Maybe others will learn something from our findings, maybe others will teach us some bits.
Randall Degges @rdegges.com I'm just a happy programmer that likes to hack stuff.
Snorkel @snorkel42.bsky.social InfoSec nerd. Infrastructure nerd. Tech nerd. Music nerd. Old fart.
CYBERWARCON @cyberwarcon.bsky.social CYBERWARCON is a one-day conference in Arlington, VA focused on the specter of destruction, disruption, and malicious influence on our society through cyber capabilities.
cyberwarcon.com
vx-underground (automated mirror) @vxundergroundre.bsky.social The largest collection of malware source code, samples, and papers on the internet.
Password: infected
(unofficial, this is a bot! Maintained by a private individual, the bot can't handle retweets or replies, support soonish)
Katie Nickels @likethecoins.bsky.social 
David Oxley @oxley.io Interim head of information security at Anduril Industries. @CitizenLab.ca Research Fellow. Former federal agent. Fan of space, books, cyberpunk, sci-fi, espionage history, and storms. Personal account. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 #ThreatIntel
Storm chasing 📸 🌪️: @wxdox.com
InfoSecSherpa 🏔️ Lake Ontario 🚣♀️ @infosecsherpa.bsky.social #Librarian turned #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy practitioner. #Philly area hoagie mouth. InfoSecSherpa and Sherpa Intelligence: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! Portfolio: https://linktr.ee/infosecsherpa #GoBirds
Aaron Gersztoff @agerszto.bsky.social Advanced Threats @ Yahoo. All things security related. And the Mets.
Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com Senior reporter at @CybersecurityDive.bsky.social covering all things digital security. I also co-host @hothtakes.bsky.social. | Send me tips: https://ericjgeller.com/contact.html
Robert Jordan @rjordan3.bsky.social Not that Robert Jordan. Infosec / GRC nerd and Halloween enthusiast. He/Him. Be kind.
S 🪩 @s0urcesmeth0ds.bsky.social 
Nicole Hemsoth Prickett @nicolehemsoth.bsky.social VAST Data. Former Deputy Editor in Chief, The Register. Co-founder The Next Platform. Datacenter, chips, systems with a side of sauce.
Michele Spagnuolo @miki.it 💼: Staff Information Security Engineer at Google. 🛠️: Rosetta Flash, BitIodine. 💛: web security, ⟠, ₿, finance. Data is the most dangerous form of opinion.
AaronCTI @aaroncti.bsky.social Co-Founder Webamon, Founder @perspectiveintel.bsky.social. Author of Cyber Threat Intelligence: The No-Nonsense Guide for CISOs & Security Managers. Training at Kase Scenarios! Exec/Webinars @osint-community.bsky.social and creator of osintportal.com
Scott M. M. Jackson @scottmmjackson.com Software engineering, coffee roaster, patent lawyer, cat lord.
I currently work on cybersecurity scanning software!
@scottmmjackson@c.im
Kate Pearce @secvalve.bsky.social Aotearoa. Recovered pentester, security pragmatist. Head of security at a place Kiwi know, many other hats. 👩🏽💻🏳️🌈 Personal views. #infosec #cybersecurity Also @Secvalve@cloudisland.Nz
🐉 Fancy4n6 🦄 @shannadaly.bsky.social Digital forensics & incident response #DFIR + #CTI | Horse and Dog mum | RB/SCP for @BlackHatEvents & @bsidesmelbourne.
Cliff Fisher @brd.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood Active Directory expert. Ex-Microsoft. Was @brdpoker on that other site. Also loves poker, board games, watching sports, and spending time with my wife and our fur kiddo. He/him
📎🇺🇦🌻 ginger-hax🌻🇺🇦🎃 @ginger-hax.bsky.social Dark beers. Dark whiskeys. Fast music. Fast cars.
Computers. BBQ. Photography. USMC veteran.
🫥Signal - ginger_hax.69
rh;pd
#w00w00
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social The personal account of Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media (assignedmedia.org), your trans news source.
I'd still rather be playing pinball.
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
Helen 🏳️⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social Passionate about acceptance for #transgender people & #trans kids 🏳️⚧️ equality & saving our planet 🌍 Inclusive cis feminist ⚧
➡️ https://linktr.ee/mimmymum
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social Parent, husky-mom, doomsayer, aviator, general PITA. Views are my own.
Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social Transfeminine jurist and bioethicist | Ass. prof at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law | Clerked at Supreme Court of Canada | florenceashley.com | they/them/that bitch | ✡︎
Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their workplaces and careers. https://linktr.ee/transjournalists
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social we’re all transsexuals now
• EDITOR: The New Transsexual
• FOUNDER: Pink & Blue Strategies
• former: MMFA, CAP, HFA, LCV
The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
🔗 theflytrapmedia.com
Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social Politics & News Editor for @advocate.com, @out.com, and @them.us. GLAAD Media Award winner.
Love sushi. Opinions are mine and obviously always correct.
🇩🇪🏳️🌈🇺🇸🕷
Politics nerd and big fan of democracy. (he/him)
Signal: cwdc.98
Insta: thatdcreporter
Sarah Kate Ellis @sarahkateellis.bsky.social President & CEO of GLAAD. Working to build a better future for the queer youth of tomorrow. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social NBC News reporter covering the LGBTQ+ community.
DMs open; email Jo.Yurcaba@nbcuni.com; Signal @joyurcaba.91
Pronouns: they/them
Julie Rei Goldstein @julierei.bsky.social Actress. VO Artist. Trans Feminist. Runner. Lover of Immersive Theater & ARG's. Biological Woman. She/Her.
http://imdb.me/julierei
https://resumes.actorsaccess.com/julierei
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Allison Raine Chapman @alli.gay 🏳️⚧️ the sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead
🎓 JD candidate, social justice scholar @law.rutgers.edu
allisonchapman.lgbt
bylines: @slate.com & @assignedmedia.org
views are my own
Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social Researcher, therapist, heavily caffeinated. Frequently described as a bit of a handful. 🖤 (She/her) 🏳️⚧️ jessk.org/blog
Brandon Wolf @brandonwolf.bsky.social survivor | bestselling author | chief spox @equalityfl.bsky.social | A Place For Us: A Memoir | sco ducks 🦆