| Assistant Professor, CS @ Georgia Tech |
| Research Scientist @ Google |
| Prev: PhD in EECS from MIT |
| spdr.cc.gatech.edu |
| mikespecter.com |
DevRel at Bluesky. THE Bluesky.
Applied Meteorology is where I write about AT Protocol and the Atmosphere: https://am.jimray.net
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
Journalist interested in #surveillance | Contributor: @wired.com | @ftm.eu | Covers 🇬🇷 for @rsf.org | Researcher: @deakinuniversity.bsky.social | 2026 Fellow @techpolicypress.bsky.social
☏ Signal: vas.99
http://vaspanagiotopoulos.com
I legally create cyber attacks and malware | Mitre Threat Intell Cert | Mitre Adversary Emulation Methodology Cert |TEDx Speaker | Mossé Institute Student | former college prof | (he/him)
Forbes senior writer, covering privacy, surveillance and cybercrime. Editor of The Wiretap newsletter, featuring all of the above.
if you die in the game, you feel sad in real life
post about co-ops, roguelikes, Battletech, guitar, cooking, gardening
work in AI/ML infrastructure, python, security, SRE, k8s, robotics
🏴🏳️🌈 - en/es/中文 - Boston
Monthly talks on weird history.
Witchy queerdo in my fat goblin crone era. Cis, white, bi/pan+poly+gray/demi, nest-partnered. As vaxxed as possible. Unafraid of spiders. Neurospicy. 🧡 cheese.
Primum non nocere
Research & Teaching @ Columbia Journalism School
Willful, deliberate, and premeditated emdash user
Preventer of SPOFs
Recovering tech, business, and design journo
Weniger, aber besser.
Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
On a quest to explore other socials. Also @wseltzer@infosec.exchange
Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
LCSW alt account where I express my feelings about politics and culture without bugging my people who aren’t chronically online. They don’t need to hear that mess. Trauma therapist. Addiction Specialist. Chronic Pain. Has seen some things. She/her.
Antieukalyptustische Aktion
I want to ride a horse to the middle of the desert and take peyote and scream at god.
valorously setting a dumpster fire.
Programmer, #malware analyst. Author of #PEbear, #PEsieve, #TinyTracer. Private account. All opinions expressed here are mine only (not of my employer etc) ; https://hasherezade.net
Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
Get free 3d printed community protection whistles here: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Founder of The Vertex Project (@vtxproject)
Father of the #APT1 Report @Mandiant.
Inventor of #synapse, #vivisect, UNCs, imphash, ...
DEFCON CTF Champion, Founder of Kenshoto
journalist / co-founder @404media.co
signal: sam.404 (sensitive comms)
sam@404media.co (everything else)
complain about the paywall catch a block
Avid software engineer, and builder of DIY technology.
The one, the only, Lily
my website: https://programmerlily.com
In relationship with: @blazing-ember.bsky.social and TheCultOfMeadows
Trans and proud. Death before detransition.
Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy at @freedom.press. Interested in reducing overclassification, FOIA reform, enforcement of the Presidential Records Act, and preservation of federal records. Opinions mine. Signal leharper.89
@modalfoundation.bsky.social and @freeourfeeds.com, also information, media and journalism, rights, arts. Former ED @globalvoices.org
TV writer. Writer writer. Penned the Lizzie McG bra episode. Author of The Crone Zone for @quirkbooks.bsky.social (Fall ‘25). Liz Taylor of the Midwest.
Executive Editor, Enterprise at Newsweek Previously: Publisher & EIC of The Fine Print, EIC of The New Republic, Editor of The Atlantic Wire, EIC of Gawker, Reporter at Variety, Reporter at The New York Observer, etc.
she/it 🏳️⚧️
horror/erotica/privacy/infosec/AI ethics
“𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛.”
Security researcher, Author, and former operator / member of the deep state
Palestinian | Lawyer & Digital Rights Advocate | Tech, Law, & Society Nexus | Middle East & North Africa
Humanizing the web with a user-centric search engine and browser - no ads, no trackers, just you and the product you love: https://kagi.com/
(he/him) Artist, designer (print/web/branding/XD/games), front-of-the-full-stack-ish developer, and shenaniganizer. My friends are rad! I also am long-time volunteer staff at the best con ever Big Bad Con. You can find my games at mirthpeddlers.com.
senior researcher, tech & human rights @hrw.org
recovering journalist: bylines @theintercept.com @theguardian.com @bloomberg.com @atavist.com
Associate editor, Enterprise, POLITICO Europe. On the trail of Joan of Arc.
investigative journalist @consumerreports.org • tech podcastin’ @twit.tv • previously @ The Information & Wired • @parismartineau on the other site
send tips: paris@cr.org, or securely via Signal (267.797.8655) or Proton (tips@paris.nyc)
👩💻 paris.nyc
A walking study in demonology. AuDHD fairy cosplaying as a human. Older than you think.
Community & Social Media Manager @ the @openhomefoundation.org - check out our FOSS projects @home-assistant.io & ESPHome
Opinions my own. Free Hawaiʻi 🌸 she/fae/they
Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
Brazuka / Diretora Executiva do torproject.org / O que é importante: Software Livre + Democratização da Informação + Privacidade + Futebol + Praia + Dança
Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps and artwork on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
Space geek, roaming gnome, comms @ runZero. Ex-USG: OMB, NASA, EPA, U.S. Senate. Formerly Luta Security, Kaspersky, Avast, BlackBerry, Microsoft/WE Comms.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferjwood/
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, faculty NYU Tandon, BISR faculty, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
activist, aspiring-polymath, problematic feminist working to better this world
@b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town
avatar description: Portrait of B against colorful background
banner description: Collage of creative commons illustrations
Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, Enlightenment, Italy, classical reception), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), food, history pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com
maker and researcher with a penchant for artistic chaos
Ontario, Canada
she/her
straithe.com
Researcher, technologist, artist. 🐚 Public interest tech at Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social. she/her 〰️
Prev: Head of Open Source Research & Investigations @mozilla.org Foundation, Tech Fellow @hrw.org, engineering & art @ITP-NYU.
nyc/slc
* Public Policy
* Tech Regulation
* #auslaw
Opinions my own
I used break things and write detailed reports but now I'm management. Rapid Prototyper. Maker. Apprentice Knifemaker. Sometimes I try to help explain social situations to dudes.
Trans rights are human rights and Black lives matter.
I love you.
Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future. (He/him) More info at jacobharr.is
A robotic companion built to help stave off the insanity caused by l̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶p̶i̶t̶a̶l̶i̶s̶m̶ early stage fascism.
Trans Femme Elder. East Bay Native. Mediocre Artist.
Slayer of Destiny's Twitch Account.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/CrowsC
WebKit Engineering Manager at Apple. Ex-Google Chrome, ex-NPM. OOCSS, CSSLint. CSSConf founder, speaker. Climber 🧗, knitter, disabled zebra. Probably riding the hobby carousel 🎠. 🏳️🌈 she/her @stubbornella on Twitter
some lady.
she/her | sorayanadiamcdonald.com
hacker | infosec + human rights + anti-surveillance丨past VP Security @OpenTechFund, @internetFF, @HRW丨past fellow @mozilla @NewAmerica丨Beirut ➝ Brooklyn
dilettante, bon vivant. currently based in toronto.
early net adopter, writing/security/art/culture/tech, twice legally dead yet somehow still here.
:: www.foxtongue.com
:: www.instagram.com/foxtongue
:: founding member of www.somanyofus.com
Artist, Art Director, Game Dev, generally likes artsy creepy things.
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
They/them 🌈 Palms, Los Angeles 🌴 mobility for the public sector by day, advocacy by nite 🚌 excited for good poasting again
Human rights for everyone, everywhere.
I work at accessnow.org, but these posts are my own and do not represent the views of my employer.
An Englishman in San Francisco. Director of Security for Google Chrome.
First Amendment rodeo clown. Policy Director at Free Speech Coalition, co-founder SWR Data, among other things. Personal account, all outrage / nonsense here is my own.
I am pretty sure that I no longer "thrive in complex, fast-paced environments"
Reading your thoughts, as long as you tell me where you're writing them first this week. https://xoxo.zone/@kevinmarks
Sheffield, UK - Don't try direct messaging as I am blocked by daft UK legislation unless I'm on a VPN.
Author. Educator. Seggsologist. Coach.
Classes, Writing, & Creating on Patreon.
Live with Confidence & Joy!
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https://linkin.bio/planetmidori
Photographer, tea drinker, art maker, trans/non-binary entity, occasional writer of a weird comic book.
tristancrane.com hereportraits.com
Artsy homemaker and surreal dreamer
Privacy, surveillance, risk, tech, healthcare, & too much politics & sports probably.
Arsenal, Yankees, Jets, CFMTL, Habs, & Kraken
A platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work.
https://davidgraeber.institute
Jewish, trans, abolitionist name-your-own-price IL lawyer. Forever loving @mistymotors.net. No legal advice; not your lawyer. Free Palestine. She/her.
Maker of things. Sometimes words, sometimes beasties, sometimes art.
🛡️ Threat Research Director @Splunk ❤️ Scuba Diving
🔧 Maintainer of #AtomicRedTeam & #LOLDRIVERS & #LOLBAS
single mom with a hell of a backstory
lydialaurenson.substack.com/about // thenewmodality.com
I will not shut up about mass transit
author, "Love Rebels: How I Learned to Burn It Down Without Burning Out" | post-apocalyptic lovelord | social justice arcane trickster | anarchist cat valet | #bigbadcon 's familiar | miss.kitty.stryker at gmail
Musician. Photographer. Maker. dancer. Engineerer of software. Incorrigible collector of hobbies.
https://photos.martinstrauss.id.au
https://music.martinstrauss.id.au
https://the.fotoapp.co/ex.picturae.martinus
Knowing things is a solved problem. Getting along is not. Working on AI, media, and inter-group conflict @CHAI_Berkeley. Got here from computational journalism.
Humanities for Hackers
Antiracist antifascist patriarchy-smashing hedonistic cis-queerish nightmare from the void.
Hot Mess.
He/they
Somewhere on the periphery of the Trans + Queer Shitpost
Cybersecurity guy, D&D enthusiast, trashy horror fan, and servant of the Secret Fire. I love Disneyland, bourbon, and a good card trick.
Pro-Ukrainian 🇺🇦
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Ally
I stand for reproductive freedom.
Professor, Berkeley Law School, who writes about challenges that new information technologies pose for intellectual property & other laws. Past Chair & member of Electronic Frontier Foundation Board & of Authors Alliance Board. Gardening is my best hobby
Analyst & writer focused on intelligence and espionage.
alexaobrien.com/about
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Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
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Posts en/in Spanglish:
Tecnólogue, trabajadore social. Creo en la justicia transformativa, el apoyo mutuo y la organización comunitaria.
Technologist, social worker. I believe in transformative justice, mutual aid, and community organizing.
Tech Columnist at The Washington Post. Geoffrey.Fowler@washpost.com
features writer, new york magazine
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Co-Founder at Zentropi. Formerly Head of Trust & Safety at OpenAI, of Community Policy at Airbnb, and of Content Policy Facebook. Strictly cold takes.
San Francisco Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence® are a leading-edge Order of queer and trans nuns. We believe all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty.
Working for a better internet that enables everyone, everywhere, to thrive. Posting as myself, not representing anyone else’s views.
Fighting digital authoritarianism.
Co-Founder and former Executive Director at @r3d.mx
Supporting people and organizations building a more equitable internet. Views expressed are my own. Philadelphia.
(he/him) Comms for @eff.org; formerly with @ericswalwell.bsky.social, Oakland Tribune/Mercury News, Express-Times, Mizzou Journalism. Booze, books, cats. Opinions here are mine all mine. https://linktr.ee/joshrichman
Editor and writer. Tech critic. Since they are Canadian, would not rule out treachery. Doing work stuff for my local Center for Migrant Worker Rights. Donate to: https://chuffed.org/project/116311-protect-an-open-source-engineer-and-his-family
I help people build things that realize their purpose. Partner at Digital Public.
Well-meaning somewhat ominous cryptid.
For the little guy. Former FTC commissioner. Current Bad Bunny stan
Senior Staff Privacy Engineer at Google working on sealed computing, ambient sensing, e2ee, and stuff. Formerly encryption policy at Meta/WhatsApp. Infosec lawyer at EFF before that. Biglaw long ago. Views are mine alone.