Every time a vendor asks if I’m going to BlackHat/Bsides LV/DefCon this year! (Though I suspect we’ll be back in 2027)
Glenn Pegden
@glenn.pegden.com
Good Guy Hacker, Dad, App Sec / Vuln Man / Pentest specialist and leader, conference organiser, volunteer, speaker and attendee, retro gamer, Blackburn Rovers and Leeds Knight fan ….. hacker http://Glenn.pegden.com/findmeon
1st day of the week long Bradford Bulldogs hockey camp. I suspect he’ll look a little differently next Saturday! Glad he’s finally ditched the Crocs for sliders (even if they are mine!)
I came back from EMF camp to a mostly dead main daily-driver PC. A week later not only do I have even more screen real estate, I’m gaming at a solid 60fps for the first time, well, ever probably (at least on my own PC hardware)
Knowing that I know people on both sides of this, we absolutely need to get The Lancashire Hotpots and Count Binface collaborating on a reworking of their classic ‘Has the bin man, bin mon’ as ‘Has Count Bin Face won mon?’ youtu.be/RATXBp1v2gA?...
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Before I take a crack at it myself, nobody is working on putting #EMFCamp on @hackertracker are they?
Anyone I know got an Apple developer program membership, and would be up for using it in a demo of a small open source app for signing wallet entries? I really don’t want to pay $99 a year for something that isn’t likely to be used more than a few dozen times.
Seems like only 5 mins ago, we were in here buying his first non-baby clothes!
Any of my old school phone hackery friends got a spare distybox they are willing to sell or loan? (Or indeed any DECT to FXS adapter)? EMF Camp has inspired me to dig out some old analogue kit, but I just can’t find my distybox
Before I head to Decathlon or Go Outdoors, nobody has a mid size tent they’d be prepared to lend more for EMF Camp do they? I have a couple of ‘festival’ 2-man tents but EMF looks like I need to take a tonne of stuff, so much bigger is better.
I’ve had some highlights of this trip, being sat in a Man Utd bar, listening to Morrissey, watching Argentina beat Austria is not one of them
Remember all the glassware Esso shifted in the UK the late 80s? Seems it still used a lot in Latvia!
Malort drinkers, Benedictine drinkers, pálenka, Becherovka, Slivovice and Chacha drinkers. If I was running a one-night ‘undrinkable local filth’ evening of the hardest hardcore foul drinks from around the world, what drink would YOU add to our bar?
Things I didn’t predict today. 1am and I’ve just been drinking Benedictine
Second time in as many days that I’ve been up at 4:30. This time, Riga bound!
Last weekend, BSides Leeds Today, SnoopCon Tomorrow, Riga, Latvia What a week!
An amazing 48hr focused purely on BSides Leeds focus, suddenly seems a lifetime ago as I’m back with my son in his natural habitat
As we get ever closer to Saturday and the conference day, we wanted to put out another huge thank you to all of our fantastic sponsors ❤️ Genuinely, BSides Leeds would not be able to run without your support. We're so grateful that you were keen to be involved and help us make this happen!
Vibe-coding is ruining me. My desktop is collecting vscode windows like they are chrome tabs. All things ‘I’ll come back and finish properly later’ deep down knowing I never will
One thing nobody tells you about running a conference, the sheer amount of stuff you amass in the run up, and this is with most of the bulky ‘for participants’ stuff (the stuff we have 400 of each of) being at Grom’s!
I did say I’d post about my side projects more often, well for a few months they all get put aside, whilst I become one of the team behind BSides Leeds. We’re just one week away, so time to go and rescue the BSides organisers essentials box from the loft!
Every time I come across people trying to implement security controls (not just guardrails) in an LLM system prompt, this image comes to mind
Life of a Hockey Parent at Half Term ….. still it beats being sat playing Fortnite
Yesterday he came from Hockey Camp saying ‘I worked hard today but didn’t get MVP, so tomorrow I’m gonna work my ass off and make sure I get it’ A few minutes ago he just posted this to Insta. So proud of the little guy these days!
Last nights rabbit hole. Using an LLM to reverse engineer an 80s BBC Micro text adventure into Z-Code, then devise a walk through, then build a test harness to play though both the original and the new version repeatedly, to test it all!
As much as I adore the class of Aspect, when I’m over here without the family, I do like to sneak off to Morecambe’s best sea-front greasy-spoon cafe for a change!
