Partial, non-ranked cohort. Every edge is specific and source-linked. Shared neighbors imply no additional relationship.

Peter Samson — authored → TMRC dictionary
Date: 1959-06
The surviving dictionary records community vocabulary.
Source: https://www.gricer.com/tmrc/dictionary1959.html

Joybubbles — interviewed in → Secrets of the Little Blue Box
Date: 1971-10
Contemporary reporting; no private contact details reproduced.
Source: https://www.historyofphonephreaking.org/docs/rosenbaum1971.pdf

Joybubbles — subject of → Jason Scott remembrance
Date: 2007
A later remembrance provides the public name connection.
Source: https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1191

John Draper — interviewed in → Secrets of the Little Blue Box
Date: 1971-10
Contemporary reporting, not a technical guide.
Source: https://www.historyofphonephreaking.org/docs/rosenbaum1971.pdf

John Draper — recounted technical exchange with → Steve Wozniak
Date: Unknown
Attributed later recollection; not an inferred friendship.
Source: https://www.storiesofapple.net/captain-crunch-on-apple-an-interview-with-john-draper.html

Steve Wozniak — built → Wozniak blue box
Date: 1972
Museum artifact record.
Source: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2011/12/102659144-05-01-acc.pdf

Steve Wozniak — demonstrated Apple-1 at → Homebrew Computer Club
Date: 1976
Institutional history.
Source: https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/personal-computers/17/312

Ron Rosenbaum — authored → Secrets of the Little Blue Box
Date: 1971-10
Historical archive scan; original article not republished.
Source: https://www.historyofphonephreaking.org/docs/rosenbaum1971.pdf

Jason Scott — founded → TEXTFILES.COM
Date: 1998
Author’s account.
Source: https://ascii.textfiles.com/about

Jason Scott — created → BBS: The Documentary
Date: 2005
Author’s account.
Source: https://ascii.textfiles.com/about

Jason Scott — authored → Jason Scott remembrance
Date: 2007
Remembrance of Joybubbles.
Source: https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1191

Jeff Moss — founded → DEF CON
Date: Unknown
Founder role; conflicting secondary dates are not resolved here.
Source: https://blackhat.com/images/bh-press/bh-press-dhs-jm-8June09.pdf

Jeff Moss — founded → Black Hat
Date: Unknown
Conference founder, not evidence of attendee affiliations.
Source: https://blackhat.com/images/bh-press/bh-press-dhs-jm-8June09.pdf

Jeff Moss — sworn in as advisory member → DHS Homeland Security Advisory Council
Date: 2009-06-05
Advisory service, not intelligence employment.
Source: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/hsac_meeting_minutes_2009-06-05.pdf

Emmanuel Goldstein — cofounded and edited → 2600
Date: 1984
Historical speaker biography; no legal-name expansion.
Source: https://archive.conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2007kl/index.php_page_id%3D139.html

Emmanuel Goldstein — organized → HOPE
Date: 1994
Historical role, not a claim about current staffing.
Source: https://archive.conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2007kl/index.php_page_id%3D139.html

Aleph One — authored → Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit
Date: 1996-11-08
Public author credit; no inferred identity.
Source: https://phrack.org/issues/49/smashing-the-stack-for-fun-and-profit

The Mentor — wrote → The Conscience of a Hacker
Date: 1986-01-08
Composition date.
Source: https://phrack.org/issues/7/hackers-manifesto

The Mentor — published in → Phrack
Date: 1986-09-25
Issue release date, distinct from composition.
Source: https://phrack.org/issues/7/hackers-manifesto

Wau Holland — founding member → Chaos Computer Club
Date: Unknown
First-party community history.
Source: https://www.ccc.de/tags/wau

Dan Kaminsky — presented in → Black Hat DNS webcast
Date: 2008-07-24
Conference-hosted record.
Source: https://blackhat.com/html/webinars/kaminsky-DNS.html

HD Moore — founded → Metasploit
Date: 2003
Interview hosted by the project’s commercial steward.
Source: https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2019/12/04/discovering-a-new-path-in-asset-discovery-a-q-a-with-metasploit-founder-hd-moore/

Joanna Rutkowska — founded → Qubes OS
Date: 2009
Project history.
Source: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/10/25/thank-you-joanna/

Joanna Rutkowska — coauthored → Qubes architecture v0.3
Date: 2010-01
Bibliography also credits Rafal Wojtczuk.
Source: https://www.qubes-os.org/research/

Katie Moussouris — founded → Luta Security
Date: 2016
Organization biography.
Source: https://www.lutasecurity.com/founder-ceo

Katie Moussouris — led launch → Hack the Pentagon
Date: 2016
Biography’s account of Defense Department work; no intelligence affiliation inferred.
Source: https://www.lutasecurity.com/founder-ceo

Andrew “bunnie” Huang — authored → Hacking the Xbox
Date: Unknown
Publisher attribution.
Source: https://nostarch.com/xboxfree/

Andrew “bunnie” Huang — documented design of → Novena
Date: 2013
Creator’s project account; hardware roles described on the topic page.
Source: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2013/update-on-our-laptop-aka-novena/

Solar Designer — founded → Openwall
Date: Unknown
Project biography.
Source: https://openwall.info/wiki/people/solar

Solar Designer — coauthored → Passive Analysis of SSH Traffic
Date: 2001-03-19
Also credited to Dug Song; later revisions exist.
Source: https://www.openwall.com/articles/

Phil Zimmermann — created → PGP
Date: 1991
Author’s retrospective essay, updated in 1999.
Source: https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html

Radia Perlman — designed → Spanning Tree Protocol
Date: Unknown
Conference biography.
Source: https://www.usenix.org/conference/2006-usenix-annual-technical-conference/routing-without-tears-bridging-without-danger

Radia Perlman — presented → Routing Without Tears, Bridging Without Danger
Date: 2006
Official talk record.
Source: https://www.usenix.org/conference/2006-usenix-annual-technical-conference/routing-without-tears-bridging-without-danger

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko — researcher at → L0pht
Date: Unknown
Contemporary speaker biography.
Source: https://blackhat.com/html/bh-us-11/bh-us-11-archives.html

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko — program manager at → DARPA
Date: 2011
Historical role at a defense research agency; not current employment.
Source: https://blackhat.com/html/bh-us-11/bh-us-11-archives.html

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko — keynote speaker at → Black Hat
Date: 2011
How a Hacker Has Helped Influence the Government - and Vice Versa.
Source: https://blackhat.com/html/bh-us-11/bh-us-11-archives.html

Alan Turing — authored → On Computable Numbers
Date: 1936
Archive of the original paper.
Source: https://turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk/computable-numbers

Alan Turing — joined codebreaking site → Bletchley Park
Date: 1939-09
Successor agency’s institutional history.
Source: https://www.gchq.gov.uk/person/alan-turing

Alan Turing — worked on secure voice during wartime visit → Bell Laboratories
Date: 1942–1943
Wartime visit, NOT employment. Cryptanalysis was collaborative.
Source: https://bletchleypark.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/record_attachments/1800.pdf

Claude Shannon — authored → A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Date: 1948
Institutional publication history.
Source: https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/publications-and-media/publications/coding-and-compression-a-happy-union-of-theory-and-practice/

Claude Shannon — researcher at → Bell Laboratories
Date: 1948
Institutional history.
Source: https://www.nokia.com/blog/with-his-seminal-paper-75-years-ago-bell-labs-icon-claude-shannon-ushered-in-the-digital-age/

Ken Thompson — developed → Unix
Date: 1969
Dennis Ritchie’s first-person history.
Source: https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/hist.html

Ken Thompson — researcher at → Bell Laboratories
Date: 1969
Historical role.
Source: https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/hist.html

Dennis Ritchie — co-developed → Unix
Date: 1969
First-person history.
Source: https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/hist.html

Dennis Ritchie — created → C programming language
Date: 1971–1973
First-person language history.
Source: https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/chist.html

Dennis Ritchie — researcher at → Bell Laboratories
Date: 1969
Historical role.
Source: https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/hist.html

John Bardeen — co-developed → Point-contact transistor
Date: 1947-12
Institutional history.
Source: https://www.nokia.com/blog/the-transistor-75-years-since-the-famed-nokia-bell-labs-invention-changed-the-world/

John Bardeen — researcher at → Bell Laboratories
Date: 1947
Specific technical role.
Source: https://www.nokia.com/blog/the-transistor-75-years-since-the-famed-nokia-bell-labs-invention-changed-the-world/

Walter Brattain — co-developed → Point-contact transistor
Date: 1947-12
Institutional history.
Source: https://www.nokia.com/blog/the-transistor-75-years-since-the-famed-nokia-bell-labs-invention-changed-the-world/

Walter Brattain — researcher at → Bell Laboratories
Date: 1947
Specific technical role.
Source: https://www.nokia.com/blog/the-transistor-75-years-since-the-famed-nokia-bell-labs-invention-changed-the-world/

William Shockley — supervised research group → Bell Laboratories
Date: 1947
Do not substitute this supervisory role for the collaborators’ device work.
Source: https://www.nokia.com/blog/the-transistor-75-years-since-the-famed-nokia-bell-labs-invention-changed-the-world/

Joe Grand — member of → L0pht
Date: Unknown
Public biography.
Source: https://grandideastudio.com/about/

Joe Grand — created → JTAGulator
Date: Unknown
Repository says maintenance transferred in July 2025; creator is not necessarily current maintainer.
Source: https://github.com/grandideastudio/jtagulator

Joe Grand — designed → DEF CON 14 badge
Date: 2006
A concrete PIC10F202 microcontroller artifact.
Source: https://grandideastudio.com/portfolio/other/defcon-14-badge/

Lee Felsenstein — moderated → Homebrew Computer Club
Date: Unknown
Museum biography.
Source: https://computerhistory.org/profile/lee-felsenstein/

Lee Felsenstein — co-developed → Community Memory
Date: 1973
Museum biography.
Source: https://computerhistory.org/profile/lee-felsenstein/

Lee Felsenstein — co-developed → SOL-20
Date: Unknown
Museum credits collaborators; not a lone-inventor claim.
Source: https://computerhistory.org/profile/lee-felsenstein/

Lee Felsenstein — designed → Pennywhistle modem
Date: Unknown
Museum biography.
Source: https://computerhistory.org/profile/lee-felsenstein/

Richard Thieme — contributed to → UFOs and Government
Date: Unknown
The book’s stated scope begins in WWII, not prewar contact.
Source: https://thiemeworks.com/about/

Richard Thieme — presented → DEF CON 29 presentation
Date: 2021
Original slides establish what he presented, not independent proof of every claim.
Source: https://thiemeworks.com/uploads/Thieme-DefCon-29-UFOs-slides.pdf