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 shรฏt, nazis
John Millington @zapitron.bsky.social I'm just another computer guy in Albuquerque.
FREE TRUMP! Release the Epstein files today, so that Trump can no longer be blackmailed by adversarial governments.
Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social But doctor, I replied, bursting into tears, I ๐ข๐ฎ universally beloved bluesky personality Microplastics Sommelier
Boston area coffee-milk advocate โ๏ธ | Astro PhD ๐ญ | he/him | Exact Same Politics As You
Reskeets = Endorsing me as a person
Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social No NFTs, No A.I.
linktr.ee/sarahcandersen
ratskrad @ratskradmt.bsky.social Such along long time to be here, and a short time to be.
H4zy @h4zy.bsky.social Foodie : Security Engineer : hacker : stray cat : she/her
korakophilos โฅ // ๐
@korakophilos.net โง๏ธ Pronouns: they/them
๐ฆโโฌ Corvid enthusiast
๐ฅ Super-novice
๐ป Tech tinkerer
๐ Old phone nerd
โ๏ธ Justice & liberation advocate
โ Anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-colonial
โฟ Living with disabilities
โ ๏ธ Do no harm but take no shit
๐ https://korakophilos.net
krux @krux.org Also over at @krux@infosec.exchange
Hacker, geek, artist, creator of puzzles.
hk/at/rgtedt/urrh/p:xoals.i
If you're on the fence you should give it a shot. Cryptography and puzzles are fun. You might learn something neat.
Queercon @queercon.org 
apexxor @apexxor.com Cyber dumpster fire marshal, tabletop adventurer, wannabe coffee and whiskey snob, Malort propagandist, new dad, & husband. Follows folks smarter than he/him.
Boring Manager Rob ๐
@bourboninexile.bsky.social I do things at Graylog and BSides Orlando. Will run for Disney swag and free bananas. Privacy fan. Husband, dad, nerd, he/him. Veilid fanboy ๐
Tabatha @tabdido.bsky.social tepid takes on infosec, oss, & life | ๐ president @bsidesorl | ๐ฉโ๐ป oss devrel G-Research | MSc Cybersecurity | ๐ @fureyd | she/her | @tabatha@infosec.exchange | @tabdido or @tabatha most places- N Shaun @notthatguy.bsky.social
Edna (they/them) ๐
@ednas.bsky.social 
Elliot ๐ซช @nameoftheyear.bsky.social Cursed to never log off โ You may know me from my work at Blaseball; Crunchyroll; IndieCade; FanimeCon โ
Crypto & Privacy Village @cryptovillage.bsky.social We help bring cryptography & privacy knowledge to the hacker community.
Joe Slowik @pylos.co Threat Intel / CTI / OT / ICS / Critical Infra stuff along with other things. I genuinely care, and wish others did too.
Website: pylos.co
Training/Consulting: paralus.co
Tim (Wadhwa-)Brown :donor: @timb.me.uk push(@fediverse, "Adversarial Engineer"); # i hack in Perl
๐ bridged from โ https://infosec.exchange/@timb_machine, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
unix-ninja @unix-ninja.bsky.social Team Hashcat + Hacking stuff + Running Information Security in FinTech + I like chess + Cracking Passwords + Making music
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. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Katelyn ๐
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
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.
Deviant Ollam ใ @deviantollam.bsky.social Philadelphian in Cascadia. Vociferous champion for Oxford commas, two spaces after a period, and ellipses. I break into buildings. ๐
"Even if the world were ending tomorrow, I would still plant a tree." ๐ฒ
(he/they)
Best Value! 20% more Fiendish Dr. Noid @noid.hotunixsluts.org DEFCON Organizer (1993 - 2013), Layer_One Founder, #DC206 Founder, Black Lodge member, 3 Time Juror, Force Multiplier. I killed the dinosaurs.
DilDog ๐
@dildog.l0pht.com Tech Dysangelist
cDc/hack.xxx/Veilid
Support Veilid! Badge: ๐
www.veilid.com
Merch at: @hack.xxx
he/him/"hey buddy"
evilmog @mog.evil.af X-Force, Shenanigans, Hashcat, Church of WiFi, Black Badges, MUDs, Dad Jokes, some Infosec.
Twitter: @evil_mog
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.
Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social Breaker of software, responder of incidents, IANS Faculty, VP R&D Hunter Strategy.
Jack Rhysider @jackrhysider.bsky.social Creator of Darknet Diaries.
Verification: https://twitter.com/JackRhysider/status/1675298532406984707
Ray [REDACTED] @rayredacted.com Past: Host of "Tribe of Hackers"; Assoc. Producer "Darknet Diaries."
Current: Cybersecurity researcher and executive. Also, father of the fastest climber who has ever lived. Seriously.
Warning: I talk about my son ALOT
โUt scandis, alios subleva.โ
Tarah Wheeler @tarah.org CSO of TPO.group โฆ๏ธ EFF Board of Directorsโฆ๏ธshe/her โฆ๏ธ bestselling author but only that one time
Alyssa Miller ๐ฆ๐ฉโโ๏ธ @alyssam-infosec.com Hacker, CISO, and commercial pilot. Certified Bluesky Elder. Author and International Speaker, Chief advocate of #DoBetterBeBetter
Compassion and empathy are traits in short supply but necessary to make this world a better place.
alyssasec.com
SteveD3 (Steve Ragan) @steved3.io Father. Grandpa. Geek. Hacker. Former journalist. Security researcher. CMO @BSidesLV.org Member: Curated Intel 
Katie Paxton-Fear @insider.phd Dr, apparently. Security Adovcate @semgrep & Hacker. #BugBounty hunter & #infosec YouTuber. APIs & Interlinked OffSec, PhD in AI+Sec @hacknotcrime. she/her
Accidental CISO @accidentalciso.net I accidentally became the CISO. I didn't want this job, but the job chose me. I'm scared, and I want to go home.
https://www.accidentalciso.net
Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.bsky.social thedarktangent@defcon.social
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Jun34u @jun34u.bsky.social Alaskan in Los Angeles. Chaotic idealist.
Hacker, Writer, and Game Theorist
cDc Cultist
Forever Script Kiddie
She/They ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ดโโ ๏ธ
Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
Luta Security @lutasecurity.bsky.social #1 process planning partners for vuln disclosure & bug bounties. More bugs won't help you fix a broken process! Stop premature bountification. More info: LutaSecurity.com
Contact Us: Info@LutaSecurity.com & Press@LutaSecurity.com 
Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com cybersecurity weather man. scanning the horizons for cloudy cyber. Expert at nothing except computer rubbish. Anti-ransomware since 2015.
DEF CON Toxic BBQ @toxicbbq.org Official Account of DEF CON's Unofficial Welcome Party
Always Thursday of DEFCON
Still in the same place as always ;-)
(36.0636, -115.1178)
kusanagi @sec-9.net defense by day, offense by night
aka phoenixfyrefly on twitch
makes #hopeconf magical โจ
ex-chair, @uspirates.org
Chaotic good internet hacker cat
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.
typing loudly โจ๏ธ @typingloudly.zip ๐ฆ๏ธ outlook cloudy ๐ฆ๏ธ
๐ป writing ghost stories about GPUs ๐ป
๐ฅ BC/DR Expert ๐ฅ
(but mostly for ones I cause)
BSides Orlando @bsidesorl.bsky.social BSides Orlando 2026
Workshops: September 25th
Conference: September 26th
http://bsidesorlando.org
BSides Las Vegas @bsideslv.org BSides Las Vegas will take place August 3-5, 2026
Las Vegas ยท bsideslv.org
Ian Coldwater ๐ง๐ซ @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair. I hack things and build community.
Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk ๐ด
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3mrv36uo4pc2a
Metro @wmata.com Official Bluesky page for WMATA, aka Metro, the major public transit provider in the National Capital Region, serving Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia.
wmata.com
Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com Security editor, TechCrunch
Signal: zackwhittaker.1337
My stories: techcrunch.com/author/zack-whittaker
My newsletter/blog: this.weekinsecurity.com
Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social Benn Jordan / The Flashbulb
โขโขRecording artist | YouTuber | Researcherโขโข
https://linktr.ee/BennJordan
Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. Formerly UPenn, Bell Labs. So-called expert on election security and [โฆ]
๐ bridged from โ https://federate.social/@mattblaze, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
TProphet @tprophet.org Founder of @queercon @telechallenge @flyawardcat. Writer @2600, @tribeofhackers.
Every day, my life continues to amaze me.
ๆๆฏๅๆงๆ# ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Opinions are my own.
Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)๐ป @k8em0.bsky.social Founder & CEO LutaSecurity @payequitynow MIT&Harvard visiting scholar, @MasonNatSec fellow, 1/2 Chamoru, 1/2 Greek all-American hacker
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username๐)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
Sign up for our newsletters: https://wrd.cm/newsletters
Find our WIRED journalists here: https://go.bsky.app/Boj9b5E
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com Original news, reviews, analysis of tech trends, and expert advice on the most fundamental aspects of tech.
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.com
Ryan Mac ๐ @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Chris Messina @chrismessina.me ๐ฌ Man of the internet; generalist.
#๏ธโฃ Invented the hashtag in โ07.
๐ซก Twitter sober since April '23.
๐ App updates and snark
๐ฌ Non-smoker.
Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms ๐ธ
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.laโs weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
Shaundai Person @shaundai.com Sr Software Engineer @Netflix โข linktr.ee/shaundai
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social Law professor and writer. Expert on tech, privacy, AI, and sarcasm.
๐ฆ: https://twitter.com/tiffanycli
๐งต: https://www.threads.net/@tiffany.c.li
๐: https://mastodon.social/@tiffanycli
TiffanyLi.com if you insist
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Marques Brownlee @mkbhd.com Video maker
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10 
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you donโt contact me via a work-provided device)
https://sambiddle.com
Mat Honan โ
@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
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io @jskstanford.bsky.social fellow at Stanford. Ex: @propublica.org, @19thnews.org, @medium.com, Matter, Elgg.
I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Parker Ortolani @parkerortolani.com ai @ Penske Media | prev @theverge.com & @polygon.com, @9to5mac.com, and @buzzfeed.com | opinions are my own
๐ https://www.parkerortolani.com
โ๐ป https://www.parkerortolani.blog
๐จ https://www.behance.net/parkerortolani
Jason Snell @snell.zone I write about computers at @sixcolors.com and podcast about lots of stuff at @theincomparable.com and @relay.fm. In the words of Ken Jennings, a "strong player."
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
TechCrunch @techcrunch.com Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams.
Got a tip? http://techcrunch.com/tips
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
GitHub @github.com The AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software.