Looking for a timeline cleanse? Watch this video in which I carve a wooden spoon from a piece of firewood, then carve another one from a better piece of wood that isn't riddled with defects. It was fun to make :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3pj...

Can I Make a Wooden Spoon out of Firewood?

YouTube video by I Could Probably Make One Of Those

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If you are wondering what it takes to get published in phrack click through to the CFP for areas of interest but tl:dr the requirements are: offensive security research 10-20pgs deep dive on internals/theory Proven practical demo and source code snapshot. submissions@phrack.org

Richard Johnson@richinseattle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Spread the word! @phrack.org CFP with demoscene cracktro is live. Turn up the volume and enjoy the awesome stylings of @PiotrBania with some hopefully inspiring text from phrack staff :) phrack.org

100,000 fuzz iterations. I'd say this part of the system works :)

Wanna learn more about #fuzzing? The AFL++ community has moved to Zulip: fuzz.zulipchat.com Come join us!

Awesome Fuzzing

Zulip for the AFL++ and broader fuzzing community.

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whoever did this deserves a medal or something

Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

About time: A multi-celebration for becoming a member of Academia Europaea, my SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award, my 60th birthday, becoming an IEEE Fellow, _and_ getting the 2026 IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award. With cake and fizzy drinks!

Alright fuzzing friends- good time to reconnect and help each other fuzz harder better faster stronger Reply with how long you’ve been fuzzing, preferred fuzzing framework, how you approach writing a harness and validating results #Fuzzing #PropertyTesting to help find each other

⏱️ 9 days until submission deadline (Dec 11, 23:59 AoE). Organized by: @yannicnoller.bsky.social, @rohan.padhye.org, @ruijiemeng.bsky.social, and Laszlo (@lszekeres.bsky.social) Szekeres.

Yannic Noller@yannicnoller.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#FUZZING'26 CALL FOR PAPERS ────── ✨ After 5 years, we will be again co-located with NDSS! 🔗 fuzzing-workshop.github.io 📅 11. Dec (Submission) //cc @mboehme.bsky.social (MPI-SP), @ruijiemeng.bsky.social (CISPA), @rohan.padhye.org (CMU), László Szekeres (Google)

LibAFL 0.15.4 has just been released 🎉 Of the 30 Contributers for this release, almost half are new faces <3 github.com/AFLplusplus/... #Fuzzing #LibAFL #AFLplusplus

Release 0.15.4 · AFLplusplus/LibAFL

Highlights DumpTargetBytesToDiskStage can to dump complex inputs to disk as bytes CmpLog implementation is now consistent with AFL++ to share targets back and forth Updated and fixed ForkserverByt...

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Cool event in #saarland about #software #obsolescence that my partner is helping to run :) Speakers from #KDE, #StopKillingGames, etc. The event will be mostly in German, but folks who aren't so confident in German should come along; most folks attending/speaking are also fluent in English.

Must-read for fuzzing folks (read: tooling/algorithms/academia) by Addison Crump addisoncrump.info/research/wha...