Staff | Talks | Workshops | Special Reviewers
The following collective of awesome individuals helped us review the hundreds of CFP's for DEF CON 25. This year we expanded our boards to include new general reviewers as well as subject matter experts. From February to June these volunteers spent hundreds of hours of their time to pick the best content that fit for DEF CON. They deserve a big thank you, a cold one to ease the pain, and recognition that you can't please everyone all the time. You can see them at con wearing a CFP review badge.
CFP Review Board Staff
Nikita
Director of Content & Coordination at DEF CON Communications
Specialty : Deadly Cut & Paste
"With great power comes great respronsitrillitrance"
Alignment:
Chaotic Good
Artifacts
Enchanted Oathbow
Amulet of Inbox Zero
Mouse hand of endurance
The Dark Tangent
Organizer at DEF CON
Specialty : [Classified]
[Classified]
Alignment:
[Classified]
Artifacts
[Classified]
[Classified]
[Classified]
Leah
Doer of Things
Specialty : Translating thoughts to written words
"People carry worlds within them" - Neil Gaiman
Alignment:
Chaotic Good
Artifacts
Bag of Holding of Other Peoples' Stuff
Quill of Polishing
Cloak of Anonymity
CFP Review Board - Talks
HighWiz
Rainbow King of the n00b Horde
Specialty : Working in the Shadows
"It Is What It Is"
Alignment:
True Neutral
Artifacts
Wand of HighWiz
Wardrobe of Wond 'rousness
Ursine Victory Sword
Jericho
CFP Curmudgeon
Specialty : Vuln Encyclopedia
"Cities I would not live in for $100 Alex."
Alignment:
Lawful Neutral
Artifacts
Bag of Squirrels
Amulet of Giving Too Many Fucks
Rod of Smiting
SecBarbie
Pimpstress
Specialty : Rabble-Rousing
"Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." - HST
Alignment:
Chaotic good
Artifacts
Champagne Bubbles of Optimism
Michelin Stars of Teleportation x3
Ring of Bureaucratic Wizardry
zfasel
Next Gen IoT Big Data Disruptive Cloud AI ML Cyber Visionary
Specialty : Conversing in .gif
"You're being a complete tool right now. I need you to be a complete asshole."
Alignment:
Chaotic Neutral
Artifacts
Bottle of Macallan
Speakers of Untz, Unce, and Wubs
Spaces and vi
Roamer
CFP Vocal Antagonizer
Specialty : Pissing both submitters and other reviewers off
"You know who has imposter syndrome? Imposters"
Alignment:
Chaotic Evil
Artifacts
Beer
Whiskey
Cigarettes
Shaggy
Master of [Blank]
Specialty :"That was inappropriate"
"Not today you don't"
Alignment:
Chaotic Evil
Artifacts
The Turgid Trident
Voice of Magical Deepness
The Deck of Sleights
Suggy
The Sausage King of Chicago
Specialty : Epic-Level Fence Sitting
"Are you suggesting that I'm not who I say I am?"
Alignment:
Chaotic Good
Artifacts
Orb of Word
Invulnerable Coat of Excel
Talisman of PowerPoint
Malware Unicorn
Malware Unicorn
Specialty : Malware-mancy
[Classified]
Alignment:
Neutral Good
Artifacts
Horn of Impaling
Disassembler of truth
Acursed malware pickup lines
Dead Addict
Untitled
Specialty : Elegant Software Failures
[Classified]
Alignment:
Neutral Good
Artifacts
Acrylic Orbs of Manipulation
Contraption of Soul Stealing
Electric Scooter of Laziness
Wiseacre
Former Doer of Things
Specialty : Awkward Silences
"It's DEF CON, not Defcon"
Alignment:
Neutral Good
Artifacts
Red Pen of Grammar
Remove Disease Spell
Big Key
Pwcrack
Adjutant
Specialty : Adjutant
"But still try. For who knows what is possible."
Alignment:
Lawful Good
Artifacts
Spell of Decryption
Oak Barrel of Glengoolie Blue
Broadsword of Redaction
Medic
Constant Tinkerer
Specialty : Finding order in chaos, or seeing things that aren't there...
"You see a mousetrap, I see free cheese, and a f*&^ing challenge."
Alignment:
Chaotic Good
Artifacts
Bagpipes of Invisibility
Boots of BS Avoidance
Spectacles of Observation
yan
browser security engineer
Specialty : browsing dank memes, building pyramids
"Born too late to explore the earth. Born too soon to explore the galaxy. Born just in time to browse dank memes."
Alignment:
Chaotic Neutral
Artifacts
pyramid of eternal trolling
magic pyramid search algorithm in O(sqrt(n))
a bunny
singe
Hacker
Specialty : Living lifetimes in the last minute
"Work like hell, Share all you know, Abide by your handshake, Have fun. - Dan Geer"
Alignment:
Chaotic Good
Artifacts
Antenna of Impropriety
Cloak of Sleep Deprivation
Persistence of Reference Desire
Vulc@n
Master of Novice
Specialty : Adequately combining engineering and philosophy
"Symbol tables are like a love letter that a compiler writes to its linker."
Alignment:
Lawful Good
Artifacts
Triquetra of the unholy trinity: Ctrl, Alt, & Del
Ring of Protection
Fleece of DEF CON 17 Merino
Zoz
Robot Master
Specialty : Things that sense, actuate and explode
"Pressure builds diamonds."
Alignment:
Chaotic Neutral
Artifacts
Mohawk of Stubbornness
Pockets of Holding
Talisman of Phone Mooching
Vyrus
[Classified]
Specialty : [Classified]
[Classified]
Alignment:
[Classified]
Artifacts
[Classified]
[Classified]
[Classified]
Weasel
Twister of Bits
Specialty : Writing inefficient and unmaintainable code
[Classified]
Alignment:
Neutral Good
Artifacts
Bag of Holding
Socks of Lego Attraction
Staff of Bug Finding
CrYpT
Senior Thought Inspirer
Specialty : Giving Two Thumbs Up
"Two eyes touching. Nose dissipates. Recognize the lips that bind you." - Various, accidently
Alignment:
Chaotic Neutral
Artifacts
Wristwatch of Perpetual "Soon"
Cloak of Sudden Appearance
Trinket of Perpetual Distraction
Claviger
Hacker
Specialty : Circumnavigating Rules
[Classified]
Alignment:
Chaotic Good
Artifacts
Cloak of Work Resistance
Crystal Padding Oracle
Large Orange Cat
Grifter
[Classified]
Specialty : [Classified]
[Classified]
Alignment:
[Classified]
Artifacts
[Classified]
[Classified]
[Classified]
CFP Review Board - Workshops
Tottenkoph
Workshops Grandmaster
Specialty : Charm and compulsion
"Si non confectus, non reficiat"
Alignment:
Neutral Good
Artifacts
Coffee mug of sustenance
Bag of bags
To Do List of Regeneration
Beaker
Ninjaneer
Specialty : ++++[loading 18%]
"Yep it's hoopajooped"
Alignment:
Chaotic Neutral
Artifacts
Rock Paper Scissors
unfinished robots
The shout of Pew.Pew.Pew.
CyberSulu
Cat Wrangler
Specialty : Wearing cat hair as an accessory
"Goo goo g' joob"
Alignment:
Neutral Good
Artifacts
Lint Roller of Perpetual Banishment
Wall of Tribbles
Gallifreyan Psychic Paper
DaKahuna
Titles, I don't need no stinking title
Specialty : Wine, Women, and Wireless
"Out play, Out Drink, Outlive"
Alignment:
Neutral Good
Artifacts
Plate Armor of Etherealness
Dagger of Venom
Sun Blade
Ash
Workshops QA
Specialty : Caffeinated Engineering
[Classified]
Alignment:
Chaotic Good
Artifacts
Sneakers of the Irish Goodbye
Carafe of Neversleep
Staff of the Eternal Serpent
Munin
Keeper of Lore
Specialty : Deja Fu
Semper Alia Via
Alignment:
Neutral Good
Artifacts
Hammer of Percussive Maintenance
Keyboard, Model M
Codex of What Went Wrong Last Time
HighWiz
Rainbow King of the n00b Horde
Specialty : Working in the Shadows
"It Is What It Is"
Alignment:
True Neutral
Artifacts
Wand of HighWiz
Wardrobe of Wond'rousness
Ursine Victory Sword
CFP Review Board - Special Reviewers
Tuna
King
Specialty : I am not special
"drop duece dip"
Alignment:
Chaotic Neutral
Artifacts
one pet fenrir
one pet jormungand
20Mbps connection to the Internet
Andrea
[Classified]
Specialty : legal footnotes of unusual size
[Classified]
Alignment:
Neutral Good
Artifacts
stone tablet of logical argumentation
stabby scepter of nuanced fact-wielding
shiny magic bag of methodological rigor
Snow
Manipulation Mistress
Specialty : Guard Charmer
"That's what" - She
Alignment:
Chaotic Neutral
Artifacts
Keycard of Unrestricted Entry
Covfefe of Enlightenment
Enchanting Phishing Net
Sandy Clark (Mouse)
[Classified]
Specialty : Catalyst
[Classified]
Alignment:
Chaotic Good
Artifacts
Book of Obscure Knowledge
Chain of Interconnectedness
Wand of Multipotentiality
w0nk
Researcher
Specialty : Cyber-Enabled Five-Finger Cyber Punch of Cyber