Presented at
DEF CON 33 (2025),
Aug. 9, 2025, 2:30 p.m.
(105 minutes).
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is excited to be back at DEF CON. Our expert panelists will offer brief updates on EFF's work defending your digital rights, before opening the floor for attendees to ask their questions. This dynamic conversation centers challenges DEF CON attendees actually face, and is an opportunity to connect on common causes.
This year you’ll meet:
- Moderator Hannah Zhao (she/her), Senior Staff Attorney on EFF’s Coders' Rights Project; protecting hackers, researchers, and tinkerers.
- Alexis Hancock (she/her), EFF’s Director of Engineering, manages the much-beloved Certbot project and leads on encryption and consumer privacy research.
- Cooper Quintin (he/him), Senior Staff Technologist, aka Cyber Tiger, thwarts government surveillance with his research on EFF’s Threat Lab.
- Lisa Femia (she/her), Staff Attorney, focuses on surveillance, privacy, free speech, and the impact of technology on civil rights and civil liberties.
- Thorin Klosowski (he/him), Security and Privacy Activist, focuses on providing practical advice to protecting online security, including handling much of Surveillance Self-Defense.
Presenters:
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Hannah Zhao
- Senior Staff Attorney, Coders' Rights Project at EFF
Hannah is a senior staff attorney who focuses on criminal justice, privacy, and cybersecurity issues, and is part of the Coders’ Rights Project.
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Thorin Klosowski
Thorin is the Security and Privacy Activist at EFF, where he focuses on providing practical advice to protecting online security, including handling much of Surveillance Self-Defense.
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Alexis Hancock
- Director of Engineering at EFF
Alexis is an expert technologist and researcher on the security vulnerabilities which plague consumer electronics, and can speak to the disparate impact they have on communities.
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Cooper "CyberTiger" Quintin
- Senior Staff Technologist at EFF
Cooper Quintin is a senior public interest technologist with the EFF Threat Lab. He has given talks about security research at prestigious security conferences including Black Hat, DEFCON, Shmoocon, and ReCon about issues ranging from IMSI Catcher detection to Femtech privacy issues to newly discovered APTs. He has two children and is very tired.
Cooper has many years of security research experience on tools of surveillance used by government agencies.
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Lisa Femia
- Staff Attorney at EFF
focuses on surveillance, privacy, free speech, and the impact of technology on civil rights and civil liberties
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