March 21, 2026 - 9:00am PDT to March 22, 2026 - 6:00pm PDT
City View at Metreon | San Francisco, CA

EFF is excited to be back for BSides San Francisco! We'll be in the expo area, where you can stop by the EFF booth to chat with our team and learn about the latest developments in fighting for privacy and security online. You can even pick up a special gift as a token of our thanks when you take advantage of our membership specials or donate!

Be sure to check out some of EFF's talks at the conference!

📗 Getting PCAPs from Stingrays fro $20 with Rayhunter 🔥
EFF Sr. Staff Technologist Cooper Quintin | Sat, March 21 @ 1:25 PM, AMC Theater 02
What if you could use Wireshark on the connection between your cellphone and the tower it's connected to? In this talk we present Rayhunter, a cell site simulator detector built on top of a cheap mobile hotspot. We will discuss the technical details, what we have found so far, and our future plans.

🎤 Ask EFF Panel
EFF's David Greene, Katharine Trendacosta, Cooper Quintin, & Samantha Baldwin | Sat, March 21 @ 4:45 PM, AMC Theater 12
EFF is thrilled to return to BSidesSF to answer your burning questions on digital rights issues. We will provide updates on current EFF work before turning it over to attendees to pose questions and receive insights from our panelists on the intersection of technology and civil liberties.

📗 How Hackers Can Defrost Democracy ⚖️
EFF Sr. Staff Technologist Cooper Quintin | Sun, March 22 @ 12:15 PM, AMC IMAX 
With a budget that would be the envy of most militaries, our frosty friends have been busy buying up all the most cutting edge surveillance technologies developed in the last decade. We will talk about what tech our frosty friends have, how we got here, and how hackers can fight back.

More about BSides San Francisco: A non-profit organization designed to advance the body of Information Security knowledge by providing an annual, two-day, open forum for discussion and debate for security engineers and their affiliates. We produce a conference that is a source of education, collaboration, and continued conversation for information technologists and those associated with this field.