The NaClCON (Salt Con) speaker list is out and it's stacked. May 31–June 2, Carolina Beach NC

For those who don't know: NaClCON is a new, intentionally small (300 person cap) conference focused on hacker history and culture, not zero-days or AI hype. Beach venue, open bars, CTF, the whole deal. $495 all-in. The speaker list is a who's-who of people who built the scene: Speakers: Lee Felsenstein — Homebrew Computer Club OG, designer of the Osborne 1 (the first mass-produced portable computer) Chris Wysopal (Weld Pond) — L0pht Heavy Industries, testified before the Senate in 1998 that they could take down the internet in 30 minutes, co-founder of Veracode G. Mark Hardy — 40+ years in cybersecurity, talking "A Hacker Looks at 50" Richard Thieme — Author/speaker who's keynoted DEF CON 27 times, covering the human impacts of tech since the early internet days Brian Harden (noid) — Helped build the LA 2600 scene, DC206, and DEF CON itself. Now farms and writes about himself in third person Izaac Falken — 2600 Magazine / Off The Hook, 30 years in professional security Mei Danowski — Natto Thoughts, speaking on ancient Chinese strategy and the birth of China's early hacker culture Josh Corman — "I Am The Cavalry" founder, CISA COVID task force, currently working on UnDisruptable27 Casey John Ellis — Bugcrowd founder, co-founder of disclose.io, White House, DoD, and DHS security advisor Jericho — 33+ years in the scene, speaking on life in an early 90s hacker group Andrew Brandt — Threat researcher (Sophos, Symantec), demoing early hacking tools on obsolete hardware Johnny Shaieb: IBM X-Force Red, speaking on the history of vulnerability databases B.K. DeLong (McIntyre) — Attrition.org, the team that manually archived 15,000+ web defacements in the late 90s Jamie Arlen — 30+ years, Securosis, Liquidmatrix; "an epic career of doing all the wrong things and somehow still being right" Heidi and Bruce Potter — Developers of Turngate and founders of ShmoonCon Dustin Heywood (EvilMog) — IBM X-Force, Team Hashcat, multi-time Hacker Jeopardy World Champion Fireside chats include noid doing DEF CON war stories and Edison Carter on old-school phone phreaking in the 80s/90s and a grog filled night with the dread pirate Hackbeer'd. A couple things worth knowing before you register: The conference hotel (Courtyard by Marriott Carolina Beach Oceanfront) has a room block at $139/night (roughly 70% off the peak beach-season rates) so book through naclcon.com/hotel or use group code NACC. Block expires May 1st so don't sit on it. DM me and I'll see what I can do to get you a discount code. naclcon.com | Register submitted by /u/count_zero_moustafa [link] [comments]

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