DistrictCon @districtcon.bsky.social A new DC hacker conference: Bringing together builders, breakers, and fixers to do cool shit.
Feb. 6-7, 2027
districtcon.org
Gwyddia @gwyddia.bsky.social Moooom, recovering attorney (nacho atty), Principal Consultant - Tabletop Exercises @CrowdStrike, gamer, gym critter, an aisle of gnomes in a trench coat. Opinions mine. She/her.
Props To History @propstohistory.bsky.social LA Based Art Director, Prop Master, Historian, Story Teller, Content Creator @propstohistory
Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social Writer, Director, Actor, Producer and failed Dairy Farmer.
www.melbrooks.com
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social Just someone that dabbles in threat research, malware analysis, RE, incident response, CTFs, and old school forensics.
Apologetic ginger.
@bsidescharm.bsky.social @bsidescharm.bsky.social 
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
VexWild @vexwild14.bsky.social TTRPG & ADHD Content Creator
I swear I'll remember to post here too!
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Erin @erinpatterson.bsky.social Whiskey, woodsmoke, and wanderlust
Billy @billyyork.bsky.social
www.twooaksdesign.com
Making wood work in west Austin Tx/Dripping Springs
Father, Husband & photographer. He/Him
Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social Not the Jon Stewart you miss.
DFIR developer at Stroz Friedberg/Aon Cyber.
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
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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 shΓ―t, nazis
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
Proton @proton.me Choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Start protecting your personal information online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, Proton Wallet, and Lumo: https://proton.me/
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org π Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
ShmooCon @shmoocon.bsky.social Jan 10-12, 2025
Washington, D.C.
Less π« Than Ever
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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Ian Coldwater π§π« @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk π΄
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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.
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.
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NPR @npr.org This is NPR ποΈ
EricLaw π» @ericlawrence.com Seek first to understand.
Impatient optimist. Dad. Zetetic. Author. Runner. Speaker. Made Fiddler & SlickRun. My code runs in your browser. @ MSFT 19yrs+ on web & security. I speak for myself.
he/him
https://ericlawrence.com/
https://textslashplain.com/
Rob Joyce @rgblights.bsky.social Cyber guy. Former NSA cybersecurity director and chief of TAO. Lover of memes. Warning - occasional outrageous Christmas light content.
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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Dmitri Alperovitch @dmitri.silverado.org Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
@DAlperovitch elsewhere
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
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. π³οΈβπ
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social I cover digital threats for NBC News. Tip me! @kevincollier.01 on signal, kevin.collier@nbcuni.com. NYC, from West Virginia.
InfoSecSherpa ποΈ Lake Ontario π£ββοΈ @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
selenakyle @selenakyle.bsky.social β researcher, artist, mystic & mathlete.
π¦ what the fox says
Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
Katelyn π
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
Deviant Ollam γ @deviantollam.bsky.social Philadelphian in Cascadia. Vociferous champion for Oxford commas, two spaces after a period, and ellipses. I break into buildings. π
"Even if the world were ending tomorrow, I would still plant a tree." π²
(he/they)
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
Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social Breaker of software, responder of incidents, IANS Faculty, VP R&D Hunter Strategy.
wendy knox everette @wendyck.bsky.social Startup CISO. BSidesLV Lockpick. Hacker lawyer. Amzn & Google alum, USCG wife, Wellesley, GMU Law. IAAL but IANYL.
Ellen Nakashima @ellenwapo.bsky.social Intelligence and national security reporter at The Washington Post. Reach me securely on Signal at Ellen.626.
Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social Journalist - cyber/natn'l security. Speaker. Georgetown adjunct prof. Author - COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Signal: KimZ.42
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com
Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org Straight-shooting information and analysis at the intersection of national security, law, and policy.
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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com Researcher, Computer Security @ ICSI
Chief Mad Scientist @ Skerry Technologies
Putting the Science in "Mad Science"
Digital, Explainable, and (usually) Adversarial Systems
Looking for employment: CV is here https://skerry-tech.com/cv.html
he/him
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social Now: Making Decoder @ The Verge. Earlier: editor for Protocol; reporter for Ars Technica, CQ Roll Call, Consumerist, and Kotaku; decades of other writing strewn across the internet. Boston-born, now DC-dwelling. She/her.
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
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I did a TED talk once
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Alex Stamos @stamos.org CPO/CSO of Corridor.dev, teaching at Stanford.
Rob Fuller @mubix.com (he/him) Dad / Husband / Marine / Student / Teacher / @Hak5 / @NoVAHackers / @SiliconHBO / @NationalCCDC / @MARFORCYBER Auxiliary
Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)π» @k8em0.bsky.social Founder & CEO LutaSecurity @payequitynow MIT&Harvard visiting scholar, @MasonNatSec fellow, 1/2 Chamoru, 1/2 Greek all-American hacker
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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
Taylor Rafal-Brooks @taylorpbrooks.bsky.social Cyber Threat Intelligence at BoozAllen | Former Scoville Fellow Carnegie Endowment | Space Cyber Telecom UNL Law. Opinions my own. he/him
Jen @jen.bsky.social Security and privacy nerd, online since the early 90s, poker player, fitness enthusiast, iconoclast, lifelong learner, secular homeschool mom, reader, animal lover, glp-1/peptide obsessed,
User #216 used to tweet from
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net Birb stalker. Cat tree. Cyber Threat Researcher. Recovering cyber and natsec reporter. Meme war and US Navy veteran.
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