CyberZeist is a black hat hacker.

Jeff Moss, also known as Dark Tangent, is an American hacker, computer, and internet security expert who founded the Black Hat and DEF CON computer security conferences. He lives in Seattle, Washington but frequently travels to Washington, DC and New York.

Ion Sancho was the Election Supervisor for Leon County, Florida who allowed Harri Hursti to conduct his memory card hack using Leon County voting machines in 2005. It was this access that was documented on Hacking Democracy. Sancho lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

Michael Daniel served from June 2012 to January 2017 as Special Assistant to President Obama and Cybersecurity Coordinator on the National Security Council Staff. In this role, Daniel led the development of national cybersecurity strategy and policy.

Andrei Barysevich is the Director of Advanced Collection at Recorded Future. He specializes in threat intelligence on highly restrictive criminal communities and he oversees proactive intelligence operations. It was Barysevich who first found that the Election Assistance Commission had been hacked by a Russian he named Rasputin. Barysevich lives in Florida but travels frequently to New York.

Marilyn Marks is a voting security activist and Executive Director of the Coalition for Good Governance. In 2009, after a narrow loss to become the Mayor of Aspen, Marks recognized the vulnerabilities in Colorado’s election systems. She then devoted herself full time to election integrity litigation and lobbying efforts for more transparent and verifiable elections. She successfully litigated the effort to make Colorado ballots open public records for post-election reviews, followed by more than 25 election-related cases involving election transparency or voter privacy (“secret ballots”). She is the driving force behind the current legal challenge to Georgia’s unverifiable electronic voting system. She resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Rich DeMillo is an American computer scientist, educator and executive. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Computing and Professor of Management at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has worked closely with Marilyn Marks on the legal challenges to Georgia’s voting systems.

Philip Stark is a Professor of Statistics, Associate Dean of the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Interim Regional Associate Dean of the College of Chemistry and Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of California Berkley. He is the co-creator of Risk Limiting Audits, a system of auditing a percentage of each election that is currently in use in Colorado.

James Paul Lankford is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Oklahoma since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's 5th congressional district from 2011 to 2015. He is the co-sponsor of the Secure Elections Act with Senator Klobuchar.

Amy Jean Klobuchar is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. She serves on the Judiciary Committee and the Senate Rules Committee. She is the co-sponsor of the Secure Elections Act with Senator Lankford.

Ronald Lee Wyden is the senior United States Senator for Oregon since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until 1996. He serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Mark Robert Warner is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Virginia, a seat he was first elected to in 2008. He is a member of the Democratic Party and currently a Vice Chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus and the Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Douglas Edward Lute was the United States Permanent Representative to NATO from 2013 to 2017. Lute is a retired United States Army lieutenant general.

Matt Blaze is a researcher in the areas of secure systems, cryptography, and trust management. He is currently the McDevitt Chair of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown University

Logan Lamb is a security engineer based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is adviser to Marilyn Marks in her federal lawsuits.

Sue Halpern is a contributing writer covering politics and technology and has been writing for The New Yorker since 2005. She is the author of seven books, including the best-selling “A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home” and “Four Wings and a Prayer,” which was made into an Emmy©-nominated film.

Sandy Clark is a Graduate Student (Ph.D.) in computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on computer security and privacy, with an emphasis on computer security as an ecosystem and her advisor is Matt Blaze.

Jake Braun served as the White House Liaison to the Department of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama (D) from 2009 to 2011. Braun is the Executive Director for the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy’s Cyber Policy Initiative.

Nathaniel Herz covers the environment for Alaska’s Energy Desk for Alaska Public Media. Prior to that he was a reporter for five years at the Anchorage Daily News.

Mikko Hypponen is a global security expert. He has worked at F-Secure since 1991. Mr. Hypponen has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American, and he appears frequently on international TV. He has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge. He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.