The most popular humans on Mastodon.
Steve Troughton-Smith
@[email protected]App developer & mini painter. I make apps and break things.
UIKit. Swift. Gaming. Warhammer. Generative AI. Reverse-engineering. Husband. 🏳️🌈 He/him.
Kevin Rothrock
@[email protected]hyper-professional #Russia guy, managing editor of @meduza_en, ugly American based in Portland, Oregon (USA). Signal: @KevinRothrock.01
Matt Blaze
@[email protected]Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. Formerly UPenn, Bell Labs. So-called expert on election security and stuff. https://twitter.com/mattblaze on the Twitter. Slow photographer. Radio nerd. Blogs occasionally at https://www.mattblaze.org/blog . I probably won't see your DM; use something else. He/Him. Uses this wrong.
Eric A. Meyer
@[email protected]Armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist. Old enough for it to hurt when I stand up, not old enough to have stopped noticing. Agnostic in principle, atheist in practice, #CSS guy, mzungu. I’m only here for the food.
Viss
@[email protected]D̒͂̕ᵈăᵃn̕ᶰ Ť̾̾̓͐͒͠ᵗe͗̑́̋̂́͡ᵉn̅ᶰtᵗl̀̓͘ᶫe̓̒̂̚ᵉrʳ
:: Founder, Phobos Group
:: Quad Flooper :: Scoville Addict
:: Public Speaker :: food pornographer
:: Twitter Alum (2011-2012)
:: security histrionics
:: finance histrionics
:: tattoo'ed nerd
:: security longhair
part george carlin, part bill hicks, part robin williams.
I run a tiny security consulting company, make hotsauce, watch cartoons and figured out how to weaponize home assistant. I found 118 dollars of btc in my garage.
alissa
@[email protected]be good, don't die
#Wardriving | Hacking | Shenanigans
Aurynn Shaw
@[email protected]Your friendly neighbourhood Cloud Island administrator.
Aotearoa New Zealand immigrant.
Pōneke resident.
Founder of https://eiara.nz. Does DevOps, culture, and tells you how security impacts everything you design.
Yes, I'm that Aurynn: https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture/
Tech culture commentator.
Your cutest cyberpunk trans pocket friend.
Moth girl. Occasional voidkin.
Kev Quirk
@[email protected]Used to help run Fosstodon. These days, I just hang out here.
I work in InfoSec and live with two kids, one wife, two dogs, a blind cat, a flock of 25 chickens, 8 goats, and more fish than I can count.
Also into watches and motorbikes — both riding and wrenching.
I also run @purecommons.
Lesley Carhart
@[email protected]
I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires.
ICS cybersecurity person, @pancakescon organizer, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. Speaker available for gigs.
Gin connoisseur. Rodent parent. Some dipshit from Chicago. Now an immigrant in Melbourne.
I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts are entirely my own.
'they/them' 🏳️🌈

AkaSci 🛰️
@[email protected]SatCom Scientist
Writing occasionally about science, space missions, astronomy, planetary science, satellites, Democracy and human rights.
He/Him
#science #space #technology #astronomy #satcom #Democracy
Karl Voit
@[email protected]
PIMfluencer
Influencing myself all the time. Rabbit-hole investigator.
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I don't fav read toots.
#PIM #FOSS #Emacs
#orgmode
#Orgdown #bicycle #decentralization #security #privacy #Austria #Graz 
Joined Mastodon 2017-11
Indexed on tootfinder
NOT political correct!
Bartosz Milewski
@[email protected]Physicist, programmer (Haskell, C++), mathematician, category theorist. Author of Category Theory for Programmers and The Dao of Functional Programming
Julia Serano
@[email protected]writer. performer. biologist. author of Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us & How We Can Fight Back, plus Whipping Girl, Excluded, & 99 Erics. current music project is *soft vowel sounds*. more at juliaserano.com. she/her
amos
@[email protected]hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🫐 open-source witch & maker of snappy videos and articles at https://bearcove.eu ✨ be kind, be curious
Michael Brazda
@[email protected]Geek, Nerd and all out dork
Rod Hilton
@[email protected]backend services engineering • Twitter alum • movie nerd • machete order guy • remote work zealot • hall monitors get mocked & blocked • facts my own & disguised as opinions
#Technology: #Programming | #Java | #Twitter | #Mastodon | #RemoteWork
#Movies: #Horror | #SciFi | #StarWars
#Politics: #DigitalRights | #Climate | #PoliceReform | #Democracy
Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒
@[email protected]Music junkie, nomad, nature enjoyer, and late-blooming hiker who's finally making his inner child happy. Photos shared are mine unless indicated otherwise. Occasional affiliate links to fund hiking adventures.
Previously: AMD, Forbes, Mozilla, Linux For Everyone.
Lenny Zeltser
@[email protected]Builder of security products and programs. Teacher of those who run them.
I'm a cybersecurity executive with deep technical roots, product management experience, and a business mindset. I've built security products and programs from early stage to enterprise scale. I'm also a Faculty Fellow at SANS Institute and the creator of REMnux, a popular Linux toolkit for malware analysis. I share perspectives on security leadership and technology at zeltser.com.
Steve Bellovin
@[email protected]I'm an affiliate scholar at Georgetown's Institute for Technology Law and Policy, and a computer science professor emeritus and former affiliate law prof at Columbia University. Author of "Thinking Security". Dinosaur photographer. Not ashamed to say that I’m still masking, because long Covid terrifies me.
Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug
@[email protected]20yrs Sec #CCC, Geraffel native, c-base, AG KRITIS, CSCB, #AGND #hacking, #Ethik, #KRITIS, OT & IT-Security, working at HiSolutions, http://Threema.id/X9H873XJ
Tarah Wheeler
@[email protected]♦️ CSO of TPO Group ♦️EFF Board Of Directors♦️US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security ♦️ Formerly Harvard, Brookings, Splunk, Symantec. ♦️she/her curmudgienne♦️standard disclaimer regarding personal opinions.♦️Searchable. t AT tarah DOT org