Alex
“Alex” (mangopdf) has hacked their employer an unspecified number of times Red Teaming, committing metaphorical crimes and writing really really detailed confession letters. Once they found former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s passport number using Google Chrome, talked to him on the phone about it, and did not get arrested.
They just started mangopdf Communication, a legitimate business in which they teach security people how to present and write in a way that non-security people understand. You too can engage in this Business Venture at mangopdfcommunication.com.
On the side, they organise purplecon, a gentle, pastel, inclusive security conference, but it’s unclear whether the whole thing is like a joke, or what.
Follow them on SoundCloud at https://mango.pdf.zone.
Session
Have you ever written software so bad you’ve wondered “at what point does this count as malware?” But what’s the point? Why would you make malware? What can you do with it? In this talk we’ll actually make it, from scratch and then automatically like the cool kids (government) do. Ah, but then we’ll realise that the malware we have could do more. Or it might get caught. So the malware gets worse.