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Jon B. // Hacker, diver, sailor, motorcyclist
Safety Harbor, FL
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About Me
90s baby, dial-up made me!
Jon "Cochise" Buzin is a hacker and managing partner alongside his two best friends at Tampa Bay's favorite hackerspace, The Neon Temple. He currently works on a red team for a Fortune 100 company. Cochise earned his street cred within the DoD offensive cyber community and learned to hack from legendary hackers "c0unt z3r0" and "Sunny Fett." He's worked on projects ranging from locating missing and exploited persons who have fallen victim to predatory cults to turning Ybor City into a place that uses machine learning to sense aggressive behavior outside of nightclubs. He is currently working on hardware hacking, IoT hacking, and #badgelife design. He is a proud US Marine veteran and enjoys sailing, motorcycles, his Tuesday night cigar Bible study, the Miami Dolphins and Hurricanes, Warhammer 40k, and growing his board game collection. He lives out his Catholic faith at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church and lives in beautiful Safety Harbor with his wife, who's been known to tolerate him at times.
Recent Writings
Talks I've Given and other Industry Contributions
- B-Sides Tampa 12 D20 CTF (Developer Co-Lead and Producer)
- Lavender Hax: using Taylor Swift lyrics for embedded security
- A Hacker's Guide to Amex Points and Luxury
- B-Sides Tampa 11 D&D CTF (Developer Lead) and Producer
- B-Sides Tampa 10 Musical Chairs CTF (Lead Developer and Producer)
- The Gucci Homelab Show at the Neon Temple (Co-host and Producer)
- The RESTRICT Act: A Second-Rate Authoritarian Power Grab (May 2023)
- How to Wage War and Bypass Congress
- Web Server Spring Training
- Root @ University of Tampa Cybersecurity Club (Founding industry advisor)
- A Gopnik's Guide to GPG and Slav Squatting (March 2020)
Industries I've worked in
- Aerospace red teaming (current)
- Private Security Solutions (current)
- Helping lawfirms sling class-actions on companies
for selling PHI to Meta and Xitter (current) - Critical infrastructure red teaming
- Building weird IoT things for a local USAF base
- Cybersecurity consulting
Projects
- Off-grid, portable cold storage to circumvent government censorship (In Progress)
- Raspberry Pi Recovery Kit (In Progress)
- Refinishing a 90s Craftsman rolling toolchest (In Progress)
- A solar powered Meshtastic node for under $60 (Completed June 2025)
- Convert my home network from a hodgepodge of FOSS to Unifi (Completed August 2024)
- Use Apache Guacamole to access my Windows rig from anywhere in the world with an iPad (Completed August 2021)