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The History of Hacking  ·  May 31 – June 2, 2026  ·  Carolina Beach, NC

  • NaClCON 2026 Speaker List

    From foodbark to All on Tue Mar 24 22:52:15 2026
    NaClCON 2026 -- May 31 - June 2, Carolina Beach, NC
    Full speaker list: naclcon.com/speakers

    MAIN STAGE
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    Lee Felsenstein
    Homebrew Computing Club, Me and My Big Ideas, The History of Hacking

    Chris Wysopal (Weld Pond)
    The Accidental Cyber Think Tank: How the L0pht Forced the World to Take Software Security Seriously

    G. Mark Hardy
    A Hacker Looks at 50

    Richard Thieme
    I began addressing the human impacts of technological change -- specifically the arrival of the public internet -- 32 years ago

    Johnny Shaieb
    Axiomatic Events that Evolved Vulnerability Databases

    Andrew Brandt
    Bring Me (Back) To Life: Running Early Hacking Tools on Obsolete Computers

    Heidi and Bruce Potter
    AMA with the Potters

    Brian Harden (noid)
    Community Organizing Before Social Media... How We Did It

    Izaac Falken
    The Persistent Antipattern'); DROP TABLE keynote; -- In-band Signaling

    Mei Danowski
    Subduing the Enemy Without Fighting: Ancient Strategy and the Birth of China's Early Hacker Imagination

    B.K. DeLong (McIntyre)
    In January 1999, a small group of volunteers at Attrition.org decided to do something no one else was doing systematically: capture and archive defaced websites

    Edison Carter
    Digital Hooligan: Origin and Exploits of an Old-School Hacker and Phone Phreak

    Jericho
    Life in an Early 90's Hacker Group

    Josh Corman
    TBA

    Casey John Ellis
    Smashing the (Policy) Stack for... Public Safety & (Not) Profit?!

    Jamie Arlen
    FAIL: An Epic Career of Doing All the Wrong Things and Somehow Still Being Right

    FIRESIDE CHATS
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    Hack Beer'd
    Avast, ye LAN lubbers! Grab a grog and park yer ParrotOS while cap'n HackBeer'd tells a `tail -f /dev/urandom`.

    Dustin Heywood (EvilMog)
    The Early Hashcat Beta Days, the Rise of the Alberta Hashcat Super Cluster, DROWN, and More