Reboot 2012

Valerie Aurora and Mary Gardiner have united to form a decade-long collaboration on a variety of “women in open source” advocacy projects, including developing anti-harassment policies at conferences.

Chris Soghoian, who was recently hired as the ACLU’s first-ever principal technologist, has never been afraid to ruffle the feathers of the corporate establishment when it comes to privacy and security issues.

Ron Ross is helping to lead the development of new standards and controls that security professionals can use to safeguard their organizations against today’s internet threat paradigms.

Gabriella Coleman, professor at McGill University in Montreal and avid observer of the Anonymous online collective, has become one of the pre-eminent thought leaders on the hacktivist culture.

Michael Coates, director of security assurance at Mozilla and chairman of OWASP, is a steadfast supporter of open-source methods to safeguard users against security and privacy threats.