hacker culture and hacker oldheads
Hackers, academics, researchers and journalists who cover hackers and hacking culture
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@bsky.realhackhistory.org
@jeffrichards.io
Cloud professional (yeah, that one) • Security • Privacy • AI/ML • Cryptography • Vegan • Animal Rights
@explodingthephone.bsky.social
The untold story of phone phreaks: the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell.
@glenn.pegden.com
Good Guy Hacker, Dad, App Sec / Vuln Man / Pentest specialist and leader, conference organiser, volunteer, speaker and attendee, retro gamer, Blackburn Rovers and Leeds Knight fan ….. hacker http://Glenn.pegden.com/findmeon
@tprophet.org
Founder of @queercon @telechallenge @flyawardcat. Writer @2600, @tribeofhackers. Every day, my life continues to amaze me. 我是同性恋# 🏳️🌈 Opinions are my own.
@goldste.in
Editor of 2600 Magazine Coordinator: Hackers On Planet Earth conferences Host: Off The Hook & Off The Wall radio shows etc.
@mog.evil.af
X-Force, Shenanigans, Hashcat, Church of WiFi, Black Badges, MUDs, Dad Jokes, some Infosec. Twitter: @evil_mog
@spacerog.bsky.social
I fight for the user. | L0pht Heavy Industries - ATStake - Whacked Mac Archives - Hacker News Network - Cyber Squirrel 1 | IBM X-Force
@sleuthcon.bsky.social
SLEUTHCON is returning June 6th, 2025 in Arlington, VA! Join us in-person or virtually. 🎟️ Grab your tix now! | https://www.sleuthcon.com
@emma.best
Journalist and co-founder of @DDoSecrets.com. Published leaks from 60 countries. Бáба-Ягá Antifa. Chronically ill. Autistic. Queer + Nonbinary. Wife of @brazenqueer.bsky.social. Follow me on Mastodon: https://kolektiva.social/@Mxy
@obscure.bsky.social
I am angry, I am ill, and I am as ugly as sin. My irritability keeps me alive and kicking. I know the meaning of life, it doesn’t help me a bit. cDc Cultee
@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 @yjb.bsky.social, the bot can't handle retweets, video, and maybe a few other things)
@honkhase.bsky.social
20yrs Sec @CCC, @GeraffelV @cbase @loadev @AG_KRITIS @CSCBonn, #AGND #hacking #Ethik #KRITIS #Cyberresilienz, working at @HiSolutions http://Threema.id/X9H873XJ Mastodon: @HonkHase@chaos.social LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-honkhase-atug-820b27241
@joetidy.bsky.social
Cyber Correspondent @ BBC News. Cyber security, online safety, crypto, AI, social networks and everything 💻📱📡. Global news mainly. DMs always open for tips/ feedback.
@GossiTheDog.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy
Cybersecurity weather person and award winning shitposter. Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights. You may be surprised to know I am not representing […] [bridged from https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@hatr.bsky.social
reporter covering cyber (both crime and state-sponsored) for Der Spiegel and ZDF, short overview at https://linktr.ee/hakantanriverdi
@linuzifer.bsky.social
Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft. @linuzifer@23.social http://linus-neumann.de
@grahamcluley.com
Award-winning #cybersecurity and #AI keynote speaker, writer, podcaster | Host of @theaifix.show and @smashingsecurity.com podcasts ❤️ #DoctorWho, #Beatles, #Chess 🌐 https://grahamcluley.com 🎙️ https://theaifix.show 🎙️ https://www.smashingsecurity.com
@susansegfault.bsky.social
Queer criminologist, Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Author of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. Chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Researching power and harm in digital infrastructure. Pfp Jamie Buchan
@weld.bsky.social
Gray haired gray hat. Co-founder Veracode. Former L0pht security researcher. Builds tools to find and fix vulnerabilities in code at scale. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WeldPond
@hexadecim8.com
Author of "Hack to the Future". Now available! https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Hack+to+The+Future%3A+How+World+Governments+Relentlessly+Pursue+and+Domesticate+Hackers-p-9781394169825
@steved3.io
Father. Grandpa. Geek. Hacker. Former journalist. Security researcher. CMO @BSidesLV.org Member: Curated Intel
@lcamtuf.coredump.cx
Substack: http://lcamtuf.substack.com/archive Homepage: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx
@rondeibert.bsky.social
Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
@violetblue.bsky.social
Awarded author, journalist: cybersecurity, privacy, digital human rights, Covid. WIRED, PopSci, Spinoff, Engadget, FT, IFJ. Visiting Scholar at Stout Research Centre, NZ. Bio: about.me/violetblue Pod: linktr.ee/raisedbyhorror News: patreon.com/violetblue
@dildog.l0pht.com
cDc/hack.xxx/veilid Support Veilid! Badge: 🅅 www.veilid.com Merch at: @hack.xxx he/him
@thepacketrat.net
Birb stalker. Cat tree. Cyber Threat Researcher. Recovering cyber and natsec journalist. Navy vet. Meme war survivor. Creator of CyberThreaterator and Sean's Vuln Emotes (SVE) #Baltimore @thepacketrat everywhere since 1994. https://falling-anvil.com
@ajvicens.bsky.social
Cybersecurity correspondent at Reuters; former Mother Jones, CyberScoop. Will bore you with skateboarding, UFO lore or Denver Broncos minutiae on request. Signal: ajvicens.57, additional contact methods: https://tinyurl.com/47jc45h7
@biella.bsky.social
Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
@sifu.tweety.fish
at different times: haxx0r in cDc PhD in using people for ML and vice versa "theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive &c music, politics, nonsense
@doublepulsar.com
cybersecurity weather person. @gossithedog before Elon ruined everything
@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.
@ddosecrets.com
Distributed Denial of Secrets is a journalist 501(c)(3) non-profit devoted to enabling the free transmission of data in the public interest. We publish and archive leaks. DDoSecrets.com LibraryOfLeaks.org DonorBox.org/ddosecrets
@thegrugq.bsky.social
@defcon.bsky.social
The world’s premier hacker conference. Serving the global hacker community since 1993. Defcon.org Forum.defcon.org Defcon.social
@kimzetter.bsky.social
Journalist - cyber/natn'l security. Speaker. Author - COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon Signal: KimZ.42 https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp/0770436196 https://www.zetter-zeroday.com
@joemenn.bsky.social
Washington Post reporter covering hacking, disinformation and what’s left of privacy. Author of books on the Cult of the Dead Cow, organized criminal hacking, and Napster. Pulitzer co-finalist 2024. Signal joemenn.01
@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
@lorenzofb.bsky.social
Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch. Tweets about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 Past lives: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED.
@k8em0.bsky.social
Founder & CEO LutaSecurity @payequitynow MIT&Harvard visiting scholar, @MasonNatSec fellow, 1/2 Chamoru, 1/2 Greek all-American hacker
@textfiles.com
Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
@agreenberg.bsky.social
Writer for WIRED. Author of SANDWORM. New book, TRACERS IN THE DARK: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, out now. agreenberg@wired.com. Andy.01 on Signal.
@kevincollier.bsky.social
I cover digital threats for NBC News. Tip me! @kevincollier.01 on signal, kevin.collier@nbcuni.com. NYC, from West Virginia.
@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
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Journalist @404Media.co Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
@micahflee.com
Member of https://lockdown.systems/ collective making @cyd.social — writing at https://micahflee.com — author of HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS https://hacksandleaks.com — signal: micah.01
@lookitup.baby
Kubernetes SIG Security co-chair, container escape artist, aurora chaser, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴 MSP feed info here: https://bsky.app/profile/lookitup.baby/post/3lapkhevr222w
@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. No AI. Hobbyist #skystorian. https://realhackhistory.org/