Netspooky is a security researcher and artist. He works on hacking zines Phrack and tmp.0ut, and runs the annual Binary Golf Grand Prix file format hacking party.

TMZ is a hobbyist security researcher and editor for Phrack Magazine, with a deep passion for underground computing culture. He also cofounded the ELF research group and online zine tmp.0ut.

Skyper was editor of Phrack Magazine from 2001 to 2006 and a researcher at team-teso and THC. Skyper loves Unix, provides free root servers (such as segfault.net), and does network protocol shenanigans. Born as a blueboxer

John Threat is a world renowned hacker, futurist, global security issues advisor, artist (MoMA PS1), writer/director, professor, and former bicycle messenger. He’s been on the cover of Wired Magazine, featured on 60 Minutes, and pops up in everything from The New York Times to Telemundo. He consults with several futurist think tanks and co-founded Rip Space, an art/tech/media/hacker project and exhibition space in Los Angeles.
instagram: @johnthreat
website: johnthreat.com

Bill Budington is a longtime activist, cryptography enthusiast, and a senior staff technologist on EFF’s Public Interest Technology team. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and cited by the U.S. Congress. Bill’s primary interest lies in dismantling systems of oppression, building up collaborative alternatives and, to borrow a phrase from Zapatismo, fighting for a “world in which many worlds fit.” He loves hackerspaces and getting together with other techies to tinker, code, share, and build the technological commons.