Welcome to Security Scribes

Stories of the security community, past, present, and future. Security Scribes is a project for current and future members of this dynamic, diverse, and incredible community. Here you will find a curated collection of the stories behind the events that made the community and the industry what it is today.

From the Blog & Behind the Scenes

• Announcing Security Scribes — Nov 22, 2025
  

  The year was 1996, and I was a 14-year-old kid with a computer, time to kill, and a dangerous amount of curiosity. I had a computer, and the rural corner of Tennessee I lived in finally had a dial-up ISP. For the first time in my life, I was connected to a much larger world. At a blazing fast 14,400 bits per second, I was linked to a world I didn’t know existed. Borders fell away, class and wealth meant nothing. All that mattered was what you could learn.