VEIL @veil-im.bsky.social Forensic-grade messaging: privacy that survives seizure, coercion, and the quantum era. Duress & decoy codes, hidden-volume vaults, steganography, post-quantum hybrid handshakes. Zero-knowledge server. Every claim labelled.
@timlu.bsky.social @timlu.bsky.social
@beyondchaz.bsky.social @beyondchaz.bsky.social Blue-state girl, cares about social fairness, environmental protection, and the little joys in life.
@dinasun.bsky.social @dinasun.bsky.social
Yael Eiger @yaeleiger.bsky.social PhD student in the Security and Privacy Lab at UW,
research on surveillance/prisons/technology
yaeleiger.github.io
Adam Bates (Yuile) @adambatesorg.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UIUC
Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee @hankhplee.bsky.social PhD student @CMU HCII | Prev: IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Brave
I develop tools that assist AI practitioners in identifying, reasoning about, and mitigating privacy risks during the development of AI products.
https://hankhplee.com/
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Paul Pearce @pearce.bsky.social Security Person. UC Irvine Professor. I miss old Twitter. Formerly Georgia Tech and UC Berkeley. https://pearce.prof
PRISM Research @prismuf.bsky.social Center for Privacy and Security of Marginalized and Vulnerable Populations
Shostack + Associates @shostackassociates.bsky.social Shostack + Associates helps customers deliver better products, faster and with less churn or internal conflict. Our approach focuses on threat modeling as a way to “measure twice, cut once.”
ramakrishnansr.bsky.social @ramakrishnansr.bsky.social Assistant Professor in CSE @ucsc. @UMich PhD. Opinions my own.
Shreyas Minocha @shreyasminocha.me Computer Science PhD student at Georgia Tech
https://shreyasminocha.me
@ewustrow.bsky.social @ewustrow.bsky.social
Howard Chiu @howardchiu.bsky.social Developmental Cognitive Neuroscientist; PhD Candidate at Brain Development and Education Lab @stanfordeducation.bsky.social and @stanfordcec.bsky.social; Stanford Graduate Fellow. BA @oxexppsy.bsky.social, MEd @unimelb.edu.au. chiuhoward.github.io
Moritz Schloegel @mu00d8.bsky.social Faculty @CISPA Helmholtz Center doing software security, program analysis, and fuzzing
Previously at SEFCOM lab @ASU and @RUB
Mohamed Moustafa Dawoud @mo-mo2025.bsky.social PhD student at University of California, Santa Cruz
https://momodawoud.github.io/
Aurore Fass @aurore-fass.bsky.social Tenured Researcher @Inria
USENIX Security Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair 2025 & 2026
Web Security & Privacy: JavaScript (in)security, browser extensions
https://aurore54f.github.io
Jaron Mink @jaronmink.bsky.social Asst. Prof. @ ASU | PI @ the http://HappyResearchLab.com | PhD from
UIUC
Secure Human-AI Interaction, Human Factors in Sec
Ariana Mirian @arianamirian.bsky.social I get excited about empirical measurement and improving security. Senior Security Researcher @ Censys, avid birder, views my own | http://arianamirian.com
Engineering HR @engineeringhr.bsky.social Engineering Human Resources. A job board and career portal for engineers, researchers and developers. Our website: https://www.engineering.hr
Willie Agnew @willie-agnew.bsky.social Queer in AI 🏳️🌈 | postdoc at cmu HCII | ostem |william-agnew.com | views my own | he/they
Wentao Guo @wentaoguo.bsky.social Postdoc at Tufts researching human-centered security and privacy for professionals. Excited to join the University of Georgia as a new assistant professor starting Fall 2027!
Also climate advocate, swimmer, and musician.
wentaoguo.com
@airfeldman.bsky.social @airfeldman.bsky.social
Jevan Hutson @jevan.bsky.social data privacy/cybersecurity attorney by day, tech law professor/clinic director by night. into data rights, not into data wrongs.
Rachel Hong @rachelhong.bsky.social PhD student at University of Washington
machine learning fairness, algorithmic bias, dataset audits, data privacy, tech policy. she/her
@Cross_theIine @cross-theline.bsky.social The Human race has a serious Control Freak problem
@Cross_theline and YOU are going to resolve that
I support the Iranian people 🇮🇷
#EndWar #EndTyranny #Cross_theline
Yash Vekaria @yash-vekaria.bsky.social phd @ucdavis | web privacy and security researcher
https//www.yashvekaria.com/
Adryana "arin" H. @awyrm.bsky.social PhD student at GWU, security, privacy, and disability justice | fake philosopher | any pronouns, she/her is fine
a-wyrm.github.io
Cori Faklaris @heycori1.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at UNC Charlotte researching usable security, privacy, and AI. Director, SPEX research group and UNC Charlotte Cybersecurity Clinic. PhD, CMU HCII. Ex-journo. Cat mom.
Lorrie Cranor @lorriecranor.bsky.social
James Curbo @curbo.org 👨💻 Cyber researcher at JHU Applied Physics Lab
📐 Doctor of Engineering, JHU Whiting School of Engineering (space cyber)
🔭 Amateur astronomer
🕹️ Video game connoisseur
📚 Math/science/history nerd, married to a geologist
✈️ USAF vet
https://curbo.space/
@kellycaine.bsky.social @kellycaine.bsky.social
Ed Felten @edfelten.bsky.social Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Offchain Labs. Emeritus Professor of Computer Science & Public Affairs at Princeton. Formerly: Deputy US CTO at White House. Currently: husband, dad, concerned American.
SOUPS @soupsconference.bsky.social The 22nd Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2026) will take place on August 23-26, 2026 in Germany. SOUPS brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy.
Mary Ellen Zurko @mzurko.bsky.social CyberSecurity with an emphasis on human use, integration, and impacts. Matron Saint of Usable Security. The only "Mary Ellen Zurko" on the web.
X-POD™ @xpodtech.com “A global technology leader developing advanced occupant‑safety solutions, including the Safety‑X‑Pod®—an ejectable, crash‑proof passenger cocoon with an integrated Environmental Control and Life Support System.” https://xpodtech.com/
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org Astrophysicist turned advocate; guiding the globe to a safer, stronger Internet. Distinguished Technologist @internetsociety.org, https://josephhall.org/, (former CDT, NYU, Princeton CITP, Berkekey iSchool/Astro)- N Nadia Heninger @nadiaheninger.bsky.social
Seny Kamara @senykamara.com I design encryption algorithms for a living but am a Hip Hop scholar at heart. Former CS professor at Brown & research scientist at Microsoft. I currently lead research at MongoDB. I think about how data, algorithms, power and culture intersect
Nicolas Christin @nc2y.bsky.social Prof. at Carnegie Mellon University. Computer security, online crime, and assorted online seediness. Reformed(?) hacker. Economic migrant.
📍 Pittsburgh, PA, mostly
🕸️ https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nicolasc
Ben Adida @benadida.com I lead an incredible team building voting machines everyone can trust. https://voting.works
Optimistic about judicious uses of tech. Systems, security, privacy, cryptography, and the web are my jam.
Previously: Clever, Square, Mozilla, Harvard, MIT.
Stephen Checkoway @stevecheckoway.bsky.social Associate Professor of Computer Science at Oberlin College. No kings, no nazis, no war.
Bushra Ashfaque @buas0987.bsky.social
Sean Peisert @peisert.bsky.social Cybersecurity R&D Lead, @berkeleylab.lbl.gov; Adjunct Professor, UC Davis; Director, @TrustedCI.org the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. Fmr EiC, IEEE Security & Privacy.
https://infosec.exchange/@peisert
https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~peisert/
Kimberly Ruth @kcruth.bsky.social Security and privacy researcher, PhD student at Stanford CS. 🐘 @kcruth@infosec.exchange
Sazzadur Rahaman @sazzadur.com Assistant Professor of Computer Science @University of Arizona. I study emerging systems and software security problems. Views are mine.- V @valyakuttan.bsky.social @valyakuttan.bsky.social
Rohit Sansiya @rsansiya.bsky.social CDAC Hyderabad
tomato tart @sodaoccultist.bsky.social hedge witch on the land and in the terminal.
ThemesOnThemes @themesonthemes.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🩷🤍💜💛
Bala Chandrasekaran @balakc.bsky.social Husband. Dad. Researcher. Educator. Photographer.
Yuriy Brun @yuriybrun.bsky.social Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
https://people.cs.umass.edu/~brun/
Steffen Becker @neffetsrekceb.bsky.social Junior Research Group Leader @rctrust.bsky.social. Research into the human aspects of hardware security.
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix.net AI researcher at XBOW. Security, RE, ML. PGP http://keybase.io/moyix/
Collins Munyendo @collinsmunyendo.bsky.social Postdoc at UC Berkeley and Incoming Asst Prof of CS at NUS
Human factors in computer security and privacy
https://collinsmunyendo.github.io/
Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social PhD-ing at UW @cip.uw.edu @hcde.uw.edu. Visual media in problematic info (mis/disinfo, hate, scams, propaganda) and digital safety in sociotechnical systems. ninalutz.github.io.
Paul Chung @pywc.bsky.social A strong enthusiast of security, privacy, and the people.
🔱 PhD Student @ UCSD
Ye Shu @yechs.bsky.social PhD student @ UCSD, doing security research. Ex-philosophy student @ Williams College
Aylin Kamelia Caliskan @aylincaliskan.bsky.social https://faculty.washington.edu/aylin
Computer scientist • Prof @UWischool & @UWcse
Co-Director @TechPolicyLab • Nonresident Senior Fellow @BrookingsInst
AI & Societal Impacts: Ethics in NLP • Multimodal ML • CV • Human-AI Collaboration
Alexis Hiniker @alexishiniker.bsky.social Associate Professor of HCI at @uwischool.bsky.social studying exploitative designs in children's tech and building a better future with my fantastic PhD students. http://alexishiniker.com
Tanusree Sharma @tanusrees.bsky.social Assistant professor @penn_state . Ph.D @UofIllinois . Usable Security, Trust, Decentralized Governance . Formerly @Google, @maxplanckpress . tanusreesharma.github.io
Karola Marky @yon-juni.bsky.social Professor CS@RUB, Digital Sovereignty
Samuel Ainsworth @skainswo.bsky.social prev: @BrownUniversity, @uwcse/@uw_wail phd, ex-@cruise, RS @waymo. 0.1x engineer, 10x friend.
spondyloarthritis, cars ruin cities, open source
Sophie Stephenson @sophiestephenson.me PhD candidate at @uwmadison.bsky.social studying interpersonal security & privacy. Website: sophiestephenson.me
Cover photo by neilbat.es
Ghassan Karame @ghassankarame.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science at RUB/HGI/CASA, Decentralized Security
sam wolfson @wolfson.bsky.social i hear this is where the cool kids hang out
sometimes i make things:
https://samwolfson.com
https://github.com/terabyte128
https://printables.com/@wolfson_947268
Ally Nisenoff @anisenoff.bsky.social CMU Societal Computing PhD Student.
@nsfgrfp fellow.
@UChicago ‘21 CS and Astrophysics.
she/her
Florian Hantke @fh4ntke.bsky.social PhD student at CISPA | Hacking webapps | CTF at FAUST
@hajulie.bsky.social @hajulie.bsky.social
Vasileios Kemerlis @vkemerlis.bsky.social Professor @Brown CS. Brown Hat. Research on systems and software security. 🏴☠️🇬🇷🇺🇸 https://cs.brown.edu/~vpk
@smokandmirrors.bsky.social @smokandmirrors.bsky.social Don't mind me, just following rando security accounts.
Aniket Kate @PurdueCS, @Supra @aniketkate.bsky.social Taking one step at a time in crypto (cryptography and cryptocurrencies both) and privacy
Phani Vadrevu @pvadrevu.bsky.social Faculty member at LSU. Research interests in web security.
https://www.phanivadrevu.com/
Sourav Das @sourav1547.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UIUC. Prev @IIT Delhi
Personal website: https://sourav1547.github.io/
Zubair Shafiq @zubair-shafiq.bsky.social prof @ucdavis; privacy + measurement researcher; outdoor enthusiast; anda-shami lover
Mildly Aggrieved Scientist @stuartschechter.bsky.social Stuart Schechter
https://stuartschechter.org/
https://mastodon.social/@MildlyAggrievedScientist
Shirin Nilizadeh, Ph.D. @shirin-nilizadeh.bsky.social Associate Professor @UTA
Security and Privacy
Internet Integrity and Safety
Postdoc at @UCSB SecLab and CMU Silicon Valley @CyLab
PhD @IUBloomington
Nam Pho @npho.bsky.social Building supercomputers and other scientific computing infrastructure for researchers in the higher education, non-profit, and government spaces. Personal account and opinions are my own.
Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social AI + emerging tech + epistemic resilience; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes, https://www.samgregory.info, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster. Former Executive Director WITNESS.
Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social A unique collaboration at the University of Washington enhancing technology policy through research, education, and thought leadership.
Yannick Boog @yannickboog.bsky.social
François Garillot @huitseeker.bsky.social Cryptography, decentralized networks, in close proximity to ☕🦀. Ex: {Protocol, Mysten, Dapper} Labs, Meta, …