Ben Kurtz is a hacker, a hardware enthusiast, and the host of the Hack the Planet podcast (symbolcrash.com/podcast). After his first talk, at DefCon 13, he ditched development and started a long career in security. He has been a pentester for IOActive, head of security for an MMO company, and on the internal pentest team for the Xbox One at Microsoft. Along the way, he volunteered on anti-censorship projects, which resulted in his conversion to Golang and the development of the ratnet project (github.com/awgh/ratnet). A few years ago, he co-founded the Binject group to develop core offensive components for Golang-based malware, and Symbol Crash, which focuses on sharing hacker knowledge through trainings for red teams, a free monthly Hardware Hacking workshop in Seattle, and podcasts. He is currently developing a ratnet-based handheld device for mobile encrypted mesh messaging (www.crowdsupply.com/improv-labs/meshinger).