As a infosec professional by day, Metacortex much prefers his hacker by night persona. Most of his free time time is spent helping run both DC801 and the Salt Lake City based HackerSpace 801 Labs. He loves talking about anything hacking related and does everything he can to help promote and build the northern Utah hacking community.

Twitter: @metacortex

Speakr: Grifter| Grifter || Grifter has been a DEF CON Goon for 14 years. He is currently the Senior Goon in charge of DEF CON Evening Event space and the DEF CON Villages. In previous lives he served as a Security, Vendor, and Skybox Goon, Coordinator of the DEF CON Movie Channel, former Organizer of the Scavenger Hunt, and Administrator of the DEF CON Forums. He birthed the idea of the DEF CON Villages and DC Groups into the world, and he's not sorry about it.

Grifter has spoken at DEF CON numerous times, as well as related Hacker, Security, and Industry conferences. He has co-authored several books on various information security topics, and has somehow found a way to convince people to give him money for what he keeps inside his head.(The technical stuff, not the dirty stuff…yet.) He uses this money to provide food and shelter for his family in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he is an active part of DC801, and a founding member of the 801 Labs hackerspace.