I made cigar box dev kits for my friends (maybe the best embedded hackers in the world) for Christmas this year. We use them at work for portable embedded RE/dev. Used two Arturo Fuente boxes.

All I want for Christmas is to not have to participate in anxiety Christmas ever again.

‘‘Twas the night before Christmas…

Take a shot every time you hear “never seen before” 🥃🇺🇸

Welp…guess we’re not decorating the tree this year 😆

Tempted to do some clandestine RE at my boys’ tournament 😆

When you read a tech CEO talking about "teaching machines to be human" and it's like "bro, have you even taught another human how to be a human" ??

Looking for recs for burning PCBs as an art project - I used a butane torch but it’s a little uncontrollable what burns and sometimes it delams…I can use a soldering iron but it takes a long time…

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

My spoooky story of the week: learned about quiet NaNs” in IEEE754 (which is spooky enough!). They are the ghosts of floating point…even if you have all FP exceptions enabled, if a std lib function or an instr generates one they propagate through subseq instructions. Eerie!👻#

My lesson for today was quiet NaNs and signaling NaNs…look it up…it *is* spooky season after all…🎃

@wbm312.bsky.social gave me this payphone pin @shmoocon.bsky.social one time and it’s the coolest pin I’ve ever seen, and I kept thinking I needed to save it for special occasions but it’s too cool not to display, so it’s on the bag now next to the pirate jelly (that I made).

Love the smell fresh ROMs in the morning…smells like victory.

TRON is *the* best hacker movie, don’t @ me

Can we please have a Cybersecurity Unawareness month?

Proud to have served my country for 20 years @jhuapl.bsky.social

There is some kind of anti-AI smash-the-machines society I can join, right?

Thanks for the hookup my friend 🙏🫵

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Did anything happen @defcon.bsky.social today?

Got this too late for @districtcon.bsky.social 0…but maybe I’ll get to wear it to DC 1!

RE something something… hack hack hack 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

Memories from DistrictCon 0 (lots of fun and great talks yesterday due to the persistence of the volunteers) - view from the hotel they sent refugees to…this morning you can see a pile of old cable bits in a dump truck and several spool trucks ready to run new lines.

I have these @districtcon.bsky.social for the hacker parents and kids!

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So this US / Canada hockey thing - anybody have a sense for how bad this is for foreign relations or is the fighting all just part of the fun of it (it is hockey after all)?

Anybody out there have a good connection on a college baseball team staff?

Got my @districtcon.bsky.social ticket today! Hoping to meet @halvarflake.bsky.social for the first time.

cryptography (n): the study of replacing whatever problem you have with a key management problem

what is the deal with rope caps

This Justin: Canadian PM resigns. Not sure if Trudeau

Oh man DeNiro something 0-day cyber something

Submit those training requests at work! @natashenka.bsky.social not only has an inspiring hobbyist-to-pro story, but she is quite good at making a super technical RE story fun and engaging.

So I'm at elem school basketball practice on Thurs (I'm an asst coach) and mid-practice a kid starts asking me about hacking his wifi router - and so between drills we talk about through-hole vs. pads, UARTs, where to buy an FTDI UART cable... 🤯

If anyone knows a “curlycris” who lost a binder of memorabilia at #shmoocon, we found it.

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My kids loved #shmoocon, partly for the “big city” experience but also because Heidi always made them feel welcome and they loved pelting me with shmooballs during a talk. We have two high-anxiety kids who we haven’t even broken the news to that we aren’t going this year…

I didn’t get to #shmoocon til 2019 but I was thrilled to be chosen to speak four times, and I had some of the best conversations of my professional hacker life at #beercon and surrounding events.

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I’m too mentally exhausted to process the FOMO of the last #shmoocon. Love you all and miss you all. I believe better days are ahead.

DNS-over-ChatGPT

My Game Boy Slideshow ROM Generator is now available at there.oughta.be/a/game-boy-s... #gameboy #retrogaming

On the coldest night of the year we watch…

For I've grown a little leaner Grown a little colder Grown a little sadder Grown a little older

Bummed that nobody’s interviewed UFO expert Colleen Rafferty on the current situation…

Many New Jerseyans just now learning what airplanes and helicopters look like at night…