The most popular humans on Mastodon.
evacide
@[email protected]Director of Cybersecurity
@EFF
/ Co-founder of
@stopstalkerware
/ These are my opinions, not my employers’ / I did a TED talk once
Kevin Beaumont
@[email protected]Cybersecurity weather person and award winning shitposter. Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights. You may be surprised to know I am not representing my employer here and these are not their opinions.
I have Direct Messages disabled - you can send them, but I will never receive them.
BrianKrebs
@[email protected]Independent investigative journalist. Covers cybercrime, security, privacy. Author of 'Spam Nation,' a NYT bestseller. Former Washington Post reporter, '95-'09. Signal: briankrebs.07
krebsonsecurity @ gmail .com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bkrebs
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
@[email protected]News + Opinions. One person mostly. Creator of many forms. Support on Patreon: http://patreon.com/liamdawe https://www.gamingonlinux.com (official account)
If you want me, email me: [email protected]
Adfichter
@[email protected]Investigative Tech-Reporterin Republik & Dnip.ch
Eigener Blog: techjournalismus.ch
Interests: #Netzpolitik #Privacy #InfoSec #DigitaleEthik #Technology
Awards for the years: 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024.
Elena Rossini ⁂
@[email protected]Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer based in Paris, France who ❤️ #FOSS
🎬 Director of: The Illusionists documentary + a Fediverse promotional video (https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/)
💌 #TheFutureIsFederated
📝 blog: @ele
👩💻 self-hosting newbie: @elena
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
Pronouns: she/her
Languages: English, French, Italian
Note: my posts are set to auto-delete* after 2 weeks ⏳
*unless I bookmark them
David Revoy
@[email protected]🍄 Webcomic Creator | Fantasy humor
🌱 Weekly comic strips | Longer series brewing in background
🎨 Only use Free/Libre & Open Source tools | CC-licensed | No AI
ploum
@[email protected]Joue de la machine à écrire dans un one-man-band pour défendre la liberté et l’imaginaire. Auteur de #Bikepunk.
Write SF and #cyberpunk books, free software and texts about freedom.
Pédale. Plonge dans l’eau froide.
Also on Gemini: gemini://ploum.net
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.
Zack Whittaker
@[email protected]Security editor, TechCrunch
Email: [email protected]
Signal: zackwhittaker.1337
New York, NY
Simon Willison
@[email protected]Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io and many other #projects.
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
Mitchell Hashimoto
@[email protected]Working on a new terminal: Ghostty. 👻 Prev: founded
@HashiCorp. Created Vagrant, Terraform, Vault, and others. Vision Jet Pilot. 👨✈️
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@[email protected]Executive Director of @spritely (but this is a personal account). I'm here to fix the Internet.
ActivityPub co-author, co-host of @[email protected]. Lisp sourceress, decentralized network architect, occasional Blender artist. she/they https://dustycloud.org/
Recently moved here from @[email protected]
Lovely banner sketch by @juliaro https://mastodon.art/@juliaro/114489465896761273
abadidea
@[email protected]the hex is silent
professional source code complainer, Pwnie Awards 2014 Best Song, will decipher ancient writing systems for free
Access to Odin photos is a privilege contingent on not being the reason I’m regretting the internet today.
English: native; Nederlands: nog niet helemaal vloeiend; 中文:走马观花
Amsterdam
Khrys
@[email protected]Libroféministe
Doctor ès boules de glu
Apôtre en maths
Commet un Khrys'presso tous les lundis matins à 7h42 sur le Framablog
Genre : bizarre
Qualificatif : sacro-saint·e
En trottinette (non électrique)
Mute plus vite que son ombre
#FDN
#FFDN
#Gitoyen
#Globenet
#Parinux
Anti-autoritaires
Persona non grata de l'#April
Matthew Garrett
@[email protected]Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security at Nvidia, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu. Blog: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org. He/him.
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' 🏳️🌈

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.
filippodb ⁂
@[email protected]
Fondatore e amministratore di mastodon.uno, pixelfed.uno e diggita.com, membro dei @devol
Nei miei server uso Linux ed applicazioni free e open source dal 2004.
Sviluppo siti noprofit (e non solo) dal 1998.
Smanetto ininterrottamente dal 1986:
Papà dal 2018 e membro del gruppo https://devol.it con cui dal 2019 gestiamo una trentina di servizi liberi: https://servizi.devol.it
Vivo e lavoro fra Milano e Pordenone.
rob pike
@[email protected]Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
Also: tootfinder