Documentarian Team
Nathan Sportsman, Executive Producer
Nathan Sportsman is the Founder and CEO of Praetorian, a leader in offensive cybersecurity. With over two decades in the industry, Nathan has significantly contributed to the field, including as a contributing author to the “Hacking Exposed” book series, an adjunct professor at the University of Texas teaching ethical hacking, and a holder of multiple US patents. He frequently speaks on the opportunities and dangers of offensive security. Nathan founded Praetorian in 2010, and under his leadership, it has become synonymous with cutting-edge cyber offense techniques. In 2020, after a decade of bootstrapping, Praetorian secured its first funding round led by McKinsey & Company. Nathan also hosts “Where Warlocks Stay Up Late,” a long-format interview series with key figures in cybersecurity. He holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Michael Schiffman, Producer
Michael Schiffman is a seasoned cybersecurity veteran with over 25 years of experience. In the late 1990s, Schiffman (aka "route") served as Editor-in-Chief for Phrack Magazine, a cornerstone of the early hacking world. Over the years, Schiffman’s has held senior positions at @stake, Internet Security Systems, Cisco, Salesforce, and most recently, Google. He has a deep interest in network security and is the author of many primordial network security tools including libnet, Firewalk, Juggernaut, Loki, and Teardrop. Additionally, Mike has written several security books and holds several network security-related patents. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s Schiffman was instrumental in shaping the hacker subculture and in the formation of the cybersecurity industry.
Gabriella Coleman, Anthropologist
Gabriella (Biella) Coleman is a full professor in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University and is a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her first book Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, was published in 2013 with Princeton University Press. She then published Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (Verso, 2014), named to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014 and awarded the Diana Forsythe Prize by the American Anthropological Association. She lectures, keynotes, and presents her research to diverse academic and non-academic audiences, including the Brookings Institution, NASA, Twitter, Re:Publica, the Chicago Humanities Festival, and international galleries and law schools. She has written for popular media outlets, including the New York Times, Slate, Wired, MIT Technology Review, Huffington Post, and the Atlantic. In 2011 she was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Her research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the National Science Foundation, and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec. In 2005, she received her Ph.D. in Socio-cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago.
Matt Goerzen, Historian
Matt Goerzen studies the history of computer security, with an emphasis on the ways hackers and other outsiders have influenced security policy and practices. He has worked as an artist and researcher, documenting hidden affordances and novel types of security vulnerability in emergent socio-technical systems. His current work considers the historical establishment, scoping, and legitimization of computer security against the backdrop of the internet’s mainstreaming, with a particular interest in understanding why certain phenomenon (like technical vulnerabilities) may have historically been prioritized over others (like community management), and the resonance of such decisions in the contemporary moment. Matt is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Harvard University.