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.
P.S. If the tickets are too large a hurtle for you, DM me and I'll see what I can about talking to the right people to get you a discount code.