BiaSciLab is a 15 year old hacker, Maker and international speaker. She was the youngest speaker at H.O.P.E. and has spoken multiple times at DEF CON; Speaking in the Voting Village, Bio Hacking Village and the r00tz Asylum kids con. She received national attention when she hacked the voting reporting system at DEFCON 26, this work was recently highlighted at the U.S. Congressional Hearing on Election Security. She has built a CTF for the DEF CON Blue Team Village that remains unsolved and flags for numerous CTFs including the Global Cyber Olympics. BiaSciLab is the Founder and CEO of Girls Who Hack, an organization focused on teaching girls the skills of hacking so that they can change the future. She has also started Secure Open Vote and is building a complete end to end election system. BiaSciLab enjoys inventing things, giving talks and teaching classes on making, programming and hacking. 

Secrets Of Social Media PsyOps

Psychological warfare thorough social media is one of the most powerful weapons in today’s political battlefield. PsyOps groups have figured out how to sharpen the blade through algorithms and targeted advertising. Nation states are using PsyOps to influence the citizens of their enemies, fighting battles from behind the keyboard. 

In this talk, BiaSciLab with cover a brief history of PsyOps and how it has been used both on the battlefield and the political stage – followed by a dive deep into how it works on the mind and how PsyOps groups are using social media to influence the political climate and elections worldwide. 

Finally she will show some tools that you can use to spot fake media and ways to protect yourself from the onslaught of Social Media PsyOps.