Ryan Singel is a Wired.com staff writer and co-edits the Threat Level blog. He covers privacy, security, tech policy, internet freedom and civil liberties. His stories run the gamut, ranging from keeping a close eye on Google's privacy practices to keeping tabs on the latest government data-mining project.

Leander Kahney (born 25th November, 1965) is managing editor, formerly a senior reporter at Wired News, the online sister publication of Wired magazine. He is the author of, The Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod (ISBN 1-886411-83-2) books. Kahney is best known for his popular blog, Cult of Mac (The Cult of Mac Blog). Leander has worked for many other publications, including: MacWeek, as a senior reporter, Scientific American, The Observer and The Guardian in London.

Xeni Jardin (born August 5 1972) is a journalist and weblogger in the United States. She is known for her position as co-editor of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing; as a contributor to "Wired" and "Wired News", and as a correspondent for the National Public Radio show "Day to Day". She has also worked as a guest technology news commentator for television networks such as CNN, Fox News and ABC.

Kim Zetter is an American freelance journalist in Oakland, California. She has written on a wide variety of subjects from the Kabbalah to dining out in San Francisco to Israel to cryptography and electronic voting, and her work has been published in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the "Los Angeles Times", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Jerusalem Post", "San Jose Mercury News", "Detroit Free Press", …

Kevin Poulsen oversees cybercrime, privacy, defense and political coverage at Wired.com, and he co-edits the Threat Level blog. He previously served as editor of the award-winning computer security news site SecurityFocus, acquired by Symantec in 2002, where his investigative reporting was frequently followed by the national press.

Michelle Delio is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in Wired News, "InfoWorld" and the "MIT Technology Review". She has also written under the name Michelle Finley. It is alleged that she may have made up quotes for many of her stories. Of 160 stories reviewed, 24 had problems with at least one source, and four include possibly fabricated quotes that made substantial assertions.

Daniel Terdiman is a journalist, who has been published in both print and non-print media, including "Time Magazine, The New York Times, Wired Magazine, CNET News.com, Wired News, Martha Stewart Weddings, Salon.com, Business 2.0", and the "San Francisco Chronicle". He writes about a wide range of subjects from hi-tech to the web to sports. He has also made speaking appearances at hi-tech conferences as an expert on electronic game development, …

Farhad Manjoo (born 1978) is a staff writer for Salon.com. Manjoo graduated from Cornell University in 2000. While there, he wrote for and then served as Editor in Chief of the "Cornell Daily Sun" student newspaper. Before taking a staff position at Salon.com, he wrote for "Wired News". Manjoo frequently writes on new media, politics, and controversies in journalism.

Quinn Norton (b. 1973) is a San Francisco-based journalist, photographer and blogger covering hacker culture, intellectual property and copyright issues, and the cool corners of the Internet. Her work has appeared in "Wired News", The Guardian, and O'Reilly Media publications such as "Make" magazine. She has also been a long-time fixture at O'Reilly's Foo Camp. Ms.

Jennifer Stisa Granick is a criminal defense attorney in San Francisco, California. She defends people charged with computer-related crimes, as well as other offenses. Jennifer has been published in Wired and the magazine for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Mark McClusky directs all of the magazine's gear and gadget coverage. Previously, McClusky was managing editor of Wired.com, an editor at Mobile PC magazine, editor in chief of EA.com, and a reporter and editor at Sports Illustrated and Sports Illustrated for Kids magazines. He's written about Chicago's avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and sports drug czar Dick Pound , and has covered the Olympics and the World Series.

Adam L. Penenberg (born July 27, 1962) is an American investigative journalist best known for uncovering the journalistic fraud of "The New Republic" reporter Stephen Glass in 1998. He was portrayed by Steve Zahn in the movie "Shattered Glass". At the time, he was a journalist working for "Forbes" magazine's online Web publication. As of 2005, Penenberg is an assistant professor of Journalism at New York University.

Lauren Weinstein is an activist concerned with matters involving technology. He has been quoted as an expert on Internet and other technology issues by various media. He became involved with those issues in the early 1970s at the first site on the ARPANET, which was located at UCLA. He was the co-founder of People For Internet Responsibility (PFIR) and the co-founder of the Union for Representative International Internet Cooperation and Analysis (URIICA).

Mark Anderson (born August 13, 1967) is a journalist and author based in western Massachusetts. He has written for "Harper's", "The Boston Globe", "Wired", "Science," and the "Rolling Stone" and is a regular contributor to "New Scientist" and "Wired News". He is a proponent of the "Oxfordian" theory, that the Elizabethan court poet-playwright Edward de Vere, …

R. U. Sirius (born Ken Goffman) is an American writer, musician, and cyberculture icon best known as co-founder and original Editor-In-Chief of "Mondo 2000". Sirius was also chairman and candidate in the 2000 U.S. presidential election for The Revolution Party. The party's 20-point platform comprised a hybrid of libertarianism, environmentalism and social liberalism. At one time, he was a regular columnist for "Wired News", "21C", …

Wendy M. Grossman is a journalist, blogger, and folksinger. She graduated from Cornell University in 1975. She was a full-time folksinger from 1975–83 and her folk album "Roseville Fair" was released in 1980. In 1987, she founded the magazine "The Skeptic" in the United Kingdom. Her credits since 1990 include work for "Scientific American" and the "Daily Telegraph", as well as "New Scientist", "Wired" and "Wired News", …

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Lance James is an American computer scientist, considered an expert on computer security techniques such as anti-phishing. He has been quoted on the subject in multiple media outlets, including CBC, CNN, the BBC, the David Lawrence Show, ZDNet, "Wired News", CSO, "USA Today", "Fox News", and the "Washington Post". He was born in 1978 in Wenatchee, Washington.

William Genovese is an American computer programmer who goes by the moninker illwill. Federal authorities charged Genovese with unlawful sale of a trade secret (US Code Title 18, section 1832) for selling the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system source code. His sales were ill-fated, taking place, respectively, to Microsoft investigators and federal agents. Genovese sold two copies of the source code totaling $40 USD.

Jennie Rothenberg is an American journalist. She is an associate editor at "The Atlantic Monthly", one of two staff members responsible for writing and maintaining "The Atlantic" online. She previously was the senior editor of "Moment Magazine", the largest independent Jewish magazine in North America, from June 2004 until January 2006.

Dylan Tweney is responsible for the site's business, gadgets and hardware coverage. Previously, he was founding editorial director of PCMagCast.com, executive editor at Mobile PC magazine and a columnist at Business 2.0 . Tweney was also an editor at InfoWorld and PC/Computing .

David Cohn _______________ __ David Cohn graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. Since then, he has been published in the New York Times, Wired News and Columbia Journalism Review, among other publications. As a "geek writer," he has mostly focused on science and technology.

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Journalist and online content producer specialising in technology, publishing, blogging, innovation, media business and culture - I've reported and edited for BBC News, Wired News and more; my commentary on online media has appeared in Time magazine, Los Angeles Business Journal, BBC Radio and Corante. I also work to enhance business communications in a marketing and intra-organisation context by implementing innovative strategies using new technologies including blogs, syndicated . . .

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Emily has over 7 years experience in the technology sector, most recently at Amazon.com where she oversaw product development, marketing and strategic planning for the used product ("marketplace") business which achieved $81M of sales in the first year of operations. Prior to that, she worked at Wired Digital (on-line division of Wired Magazine) where she was the Senior Producer of Wired News. Emily has had a long love for India.

Beth is a Senior Editor in the San Francisco office of The 451 Group. She has more than 15 years of experience in editing, primarily for business, financial and news organizations. Prior to joining The 451 Group, Beth was a Copy Editor for Wired News.

Michael Kay After several years as interface developer for HotBot and a stint as a user experience specialist for Phoenix Pop (and teaching at SF State University), Michael is now travelling the world and writing stirring books, such as The Web Wizard's Guide to Flash . Graphics, HTML, dHTML, JavaScript, and VBScript are part of his regular diet, but he's also trying to find time to get back to studying martial arts and Chinese medicine.