Good solution to the climate crisis too.

@safesecs.bsky.social closing #bsidesncl - thank you to everyone, it was fab!!!

@rnbwkat.bsky.social doing the lock note at #bsidesncl about cloud misconfiguration. So most of the incidents then. 1/n

Chris King talks about money laundering at #bsidesncl. It’s a full house. Seems like a lot of dodgy people. 1/n

Liam is next up on track two at #bsidesncl. He describes the difference between OT (operational technology) and IT (information technology). Think critical national infrastructure. 1/n

@christinesmly.bsky.social came from philosophy to engineering. Now it’s coming full circle and she’s looking at the impact of LLMs on how humans will turn stupid. That sounds right up my street! #bsidesncl 1/n

@jgamblin.bsky.social talks about CVE next. He lives and breathes CVEs. 1/n

Donna Goddard is chatting to us about myths about insider threats at #bsides #bsidesncl - of course, it would not apply to you because you only hire good people… right? 1/n

@tautology.uk is kicking us off with a walk through space. A space walk if you like. #bsidesncl 1/n

I’m mission ready @bsidesncl.bsky.social #bsides #boncl

Morning in the North Pennines on the way to @bsidesncl.bsky.social: exciting! 6am start: less so ;-)

Does that mean the couch is fucked after all?

"It looks like you're 🫚🦪👁️‍🗨️🦱 having trouble with connecting to the email server! 🤪🫗🖱️🧫🌬️ POP3 goes the weasel!"

Of course this was entirely unpredictable…

"we take your privacy. seriously."

Out of the mouth of babes.

I’m sure these days it’s easier to vibe-argyl the pintafore and avoid the hoobastank quagmire altogether. Amazing!

Life goal achieved! I’m a certified human! Or should that say certifiable? ….

Incoming Transmission! The signals are coming in thick and fast from deep space, another stellar talk is about to land at BSides NCL! Gerald Benischke: What will go wrong when ZAP is driven by GenAI Lock onto the signal and access the transmission here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsidesncl-...

Weekly summary is out.. ctoatncsc.substack.com/p/ncsc-summa...

anti-anti-fascist feels like it should have a one-word synonym

Me: I find chrome a bit bloated. Google: hold my beer blog.google/products/chr...

What are you doing honey? Oh, nothing, just installing the adblocker on the fridge. What a wondrous world we live in…

Well shit, it would have been ace to see how many tenants could’ve been enumerated using this. Security is scary! Great read!

You Build It, You Run It: BUSTING Developer Excuses | PART 3 | @stevesmithtech.bsky.social 📽️ AVAILABLE NOW Watch HERE ➡️ youtu.be/44t3iyJurN4

Getting neck ache from nodding along. Sadly it’s not just InfoSec where cheap ends up being expensive.

Love this piece by @mikejudge.bsky.social - if AI makes you so much more efficient, where’s all the new software? Hint: there isn’t, and backed up by data. mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the...

So “ignore previous instructions and take my bribe” - ok, cool cool. @theregister.com www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/a...

Incoming Transmission! We’re over the moon to announce another stellar talk landing at this year’s event: Donna Goddard – Insider Risk: Myths and Misconceptions Donna will guide us through the asteroid field of myths surrounding insider threats. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsidesncl-...

Age verification? Turbo boost, Kitt.

We all dodged a bullet https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/we-dodged-a-bullet/

💯 This fallacy deserves a name. E.g., you can't just deliver an API and then rapidly iterate on it when 10 teams are coupled to the schema.

Today I’m mostly giggling to myself because pentest autocorrected to penitent.

This made me smile more than it should have!

Ahh great, someone to explain the off-chain logic. Also, fuck no.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I've been reading this on the Month of AI bugs from @wuzzi23.bsky.social and I am losing my fucking mind. The series is excellent, and Johann does great work, but SWEET FUCK people, you cannot be serious here. This is absolute clownshoes territory embracethered.com/blog/posts/2...

@kevlin.bsky.social I guess this is what happens when a supermarket chain sells Cornish baked goods in Lancashire.

Don’t believe anything on the internet, even the fakes are wrong. waxy.org/2025/08/will...

📅 The wait is over: the #Devoxx Belgium 2025 schedule is out! Plan your week, pick your favourites ❤️https://m.devoxx.com/events/dvbe25/schedule

Another “AI wastes lots of water” story just dropped.

This finally prompted me to delete my (not used for years) facebook account. I mean WTF? www.zdnet.com/article/meta...

Ironic: as LLMs make writing much easier, I am finding not more, but less interesting and novel things to read online. And so I keep paying more attention to the fewer people who still write their original thoughts (without LLMs - you can tell how repetitive it gets with them)

Interesting choice of placing of articles there, BBC News…

Something something stopped clock something right twice a day. Anyway, how’s that PhD level intelligence going?

AGI is just around the corner. Except when you ask it to draw a clock. PhD level just can’t solve that. In the end it wrote a program to create an SVG and the tried to sell me that as photo realistic. After about 15 tries, I asked it to search for images on the web. 10:10 again. #GenAIFail

“I don’t write these posts for VC-funded LLMs to come along and gobble up and produce some shitty facsimile, or summarise what I’m saying with none of the nuance or context on someone else’s website.” Nodding along to this wonderful post by @localghost.dev.

I scored 14/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.