Ricky "HeadlessZeke" Lawshae is an offensive security researcher for the Advanced Security Research team at Trend Micro. He spends his days breaking interesting things in interesting ways with his focus mainly centered on IoT research. His work has been featured in Forbes, Wired, Ars Technica, Hackaday, and more. He tries his best to be responsible with the vulnerabilities he finds, but despite that his work has also been featured in the likes of Satori, BrickerBot, and JenX. This will be his fourth time speaking at DEF CON, and he has also spoken at Recon, Ruxcon, Insomnihack, and many more. He spends his off-hours reading (mostly comics), drinking (mostly dark beers), and gaming (mostly PS4).

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