Speaking

Backdooring Git (DEF CON 23)

DEF CON 23 talk (2015), also given at ToorCon 17 and ROOTCON 9, on cryptographic weaknesses and supply-chain attacks through Git internals, and how they put development pipelines at risk.

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Open Source Fairy Dust (DEF CON 22)

DEF CON 22 talk (2014) on how much internet infrastructure runs on open-source software that nobody has reviewed and nobody is funded to secure. Built the dataset behind it: 2,000+ open-source projects analyzed with a Jenkins pipeline on an AWS spot fleet.

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Speaking

Talks and lectures since 2002, including DEF CON 22 and 23, Chaos Communication Camp, ToorCon, DerbyCon, GrrCON, ROOTCON, BSides, Stanford, JavaOne, and ISC2, where he is listed as a Top Rated Speaker.

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Media: YouTube, Twitch, and the Zero Noise Collective podcast

Security research on video and audio: the W8MEJ YouTube channel, Complex Systems Live on Twitch, and the Zero Noise Collective podcast.

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ISC2 lecture: bug bounty and external scrutiny

Lecture for the ISC2 West Michigan chapter on why external scrutiny and bug bounty programs find what internal testing misses. Recurring ISC2 speaker, listed as a Top Rated Speaker.

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