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Apertus Solutions, TrenchBoot Project Leader

Programming, electronics and cycling nerd, bookworm and very passionate in learning. Left his own country at seventeen years old for studying and working abroad, and still searching for a place to settle. A big critic of fatalism and a fan of what-you-are-is-what-you-do way of thinking.

In professional life tries to be as pedantic as possible, believes that nothing is perfect and nobody is perfect, and every solution should be questioned and evaluated. Likes to solve complex problems, even if it implies a lot of digging before stating the final solution. States that developing skills in different fields is important as well as perfecting a one field, because everything has its intersections and sometimes it is crucial to investigate something in a different angle.

Most of the time a workaholic, but sometimes a bit lazy. Not always punctual and often unconsciously altruistic.

Security Engineer with over 20 years of experience in waiting on operating systems to compile. Former magician, PC repair tech, street entertainer, trucker, day laborer, telemarketer, web developer, tractor salesman, and burger flipper.

Best known for not owning a smartphone, compromising Japanese hotel robots, finding weak entropy flaws across widely used software, software supply chain security publicity stunts, social activism, and implanting random tech in his body.

Actual specialties include Linux infrastructure security, software supply chain security, cryptographic key management, hardware security modules, secure enclaves, remote attestation, vulnerability assessment & mitigation, PII protection, and web application hardening.

Founder of #!, a decentralized hackerspace, and Distrust, a FOSS-focused high-risk security engineering firm. Previously led sysadmin and security engineering efforts at Accesso, Pebble, BitGo, and Turnkey.

Talk to him about decentralization, social issues, mechanical puzzles, plants, weird animals, lockpicking, home manufacturing, homesteading, or anything even remotely related to security and threat modeling.

Relevant: https://distrust.co https://hashbang.sh https://lance.dev https://stagex.tools

Engineering Manager at 3mdeb with years of experience in engineering and management. Open-source software enthusiast and contributor. Interested in embedded systems in general, build systems, security.

Invisible Things Lab, Qubes OS Lead Developer

https://github.com/marmarek

Michał Kopeć is a firmware engineer working on coreboot, UEFI, Heads and laptop embedded controller firmware. He's an enthusiast of all things open source and has an interest in low level platform security. In his spare time, he enjoys bricking and unbricking computers.

reverse-engineering / low-level security
@DragonSectorCTF vice-captain / Invisible Things Lab
Mastodon: @redford@infosec.exchange
bsky: @mkow.bsky.social

Kicksecure and Whonix founder and lead developer.

Piotr Król is an open-source firmware enthusiast who founded 3mdeb in March 2015. His expertise is rooted in the hacker ethos of collaborative innovation and transparency, guiding 3mdeb's focus on projects like Zarhus OS, a Yocto-based Embedded Linux distribution, and Dasharo, a coreboot downstream project. These projects are dedicated to open development, embedded firmware resilience, platform security, transparency, the right to repair, and digital sovereignty.

Piotr's deep involvement in open-source firmware includes key computing areas such as Root of Trust, Secure, Verified and Measured Boot, TPM, coreboot, UEFI, EDK II, Yocto, U-Boot, and Linux. He often speaks at significant industry events like FOSDEM, Xen Developers Summit, and Platform Security Summit, sharing his insights and promoting the open-source firmware ecosystem. Piotr is dedicated to sharing knowledge by serving as a Trainer at OpenSecurityTraining2, offering free and open educational materials to advance the open-source firmware ecosystem.