Every time a “thought leader” rings the AI bell, a developer’s home directory gets its wings (an LLM runs `rm -rf ~/` on their workstation)

I normally take ibuprofen for my assorted pains but now that I know tylenol is good for autism I may need to switch.

Damn, third earthquake in Berkeley today. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

2. Do not give advice you haven't tried implementing yourself. Eat your own dog food. 3. Get feedback on your guide from your target audience before publication. 4. Incorporate that feedback. This is not an optional step.

There is a lot of demand for digital privacy and security advice out there right now and lots of people are giving advice and writing guides. I beg them to do a few things: 1. Be explicit about the threat model your advice is meant for.

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

“Tinker. Tailor. Solder. SPI.” Would be a good name for a Hardware Hacking talk.

#RECALL: About 480K Anker power banks. The recalled power banks can overheat, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers. Get full refund. CONTACT: 800-988-7973, email at [email protected] or online at www.anker.com/product-reca.... Full notice: www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025...

In Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Jack Ryan’s dog tag is displayed in the intro sequence. On this dog tag, his social security number is listed as 987-65-4322. This introduces an interesting implication about Jack Ryan’s legal status. 1/n

At work I am allergic to data. Keep that nuclear waste as far away from me as possible. Delete it. Get rid of it. Data is not oil, it’s plutonium. At home, I am mourning that my 140TB NAS has been offline for 3 weeks due to what has turned out to be a fault in the midplane.

Tom, Dick, and Harry’s Clancy

Uninterruptible Burrito Emergency Relief

Forgot about this very niche meme that relies on knowing both Donnie Darko and that Intel has special clean room suits called Bunny Suits.

One of my favorite article subheadings that I’ve seen in ages.

Celebrating 10 years an @eff.org member today.

Who called it Shodan and not PortLand?

Time to start work on my broadway musical: emails, egirls, emacs, egads!

Enterprise agents especially at scale are largely just compensators for incompetence and inability by the teams.

Sometimes I think about atproto vs activitypub and why I find myself on Bluesky more than mastodon. I think an underrated thing that I really value is that my handle is literally my domain. You can find me via my domain. So it centers my identity on something I control and not bound to bsky.

gatekeeping is so god dang cringe dude

I am home finally and this con was a crazy one for me. It was busier than usual, but in all the best ways. It was my 10 year anniversary of defcon. I joined the C&E goon team. I helped Hak5 get pineapple pager preorders into the hands of hundreds of excited customers. I was on the soundtrack (DFIU)

Last night, I rapped live at @defcon.bsky.social for the first time. During my song titled “DFIU”, I attempted to get off stage and ripped my pants. While literally singing about “don’t fuck it up,” I fucked it up. Could not have been funnier if I had planned it. Still finished the set.

The @defcon.bsky.social soundtrack is out today and @int0x80.com and I are on there with a TroubleShooters banger. Very excited to be included, as always, and the soundtrack is pay what you want and supports the @eff.org. defconcommunications.bandcamp.com/album/def-co....

If you’re a fan of Hacker Jeopardy, check out my song DFIU on the @defcon.bsky.social soundtrack. You can pay what you want to own (that’s right, you can actually possess the files yourself!) soundtrack and all proceeds go to the EFF. defconcommunications.bandcamp.com/track/dfiu

The FREE DEF CON 33 Original Soundtrack is live! 33 Tunes from amazing producers. It is free to download, but if you'd like to donate, 100% of revenue goes to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation. defconcommunications.bandcamp.com/album/def-co... #DEFCON #DEFCON33 #EFF #DC33

Disagree and commit crimes

I have _TWO_ new songs dropping at @defcon.bsky.social this year. One is on the @defconmusicorg.bsky.social soundtrack, it’s an ode to Hacker Jeopardy in collaboration with @lintile.lol called DFIU. One is a 56-bar free verse that will be exclusively available on The Subnet (details below).

Are you going to @defcon.bsky.social?? We'll be giving away 9500 print copies of Phrack! Come by main stage Sunday @ noon to see @vacci.ne @richinseattle.bsky.social and chompie talk hacker history! This will mark the first time Phrack staff appear together on DEF CON’s main stage.

Part of the job as a cybersecurity professional is in fact arguing to purge and not log information about your customers. Data is not oil. It's risk.

Come see me rap at the @defcon.bsky.social chillout stage on Saturday Aug 9 @ 8pm. There will be old raps and new raps, borrowed raps and blue raps.

I’m at #OpenSauce and the PCB badge has a SAO connector. Badge Life is taking over every conference, isn’t it?

No one knows how many users @obsidian.md has I think it's around 5-10 million people but I'm not sure? Anyone can download the app and start using it without creating an account or talking to anyone, and there are no analytics built-in 🤷‍♂️

Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and setting it on fire?

And you can download it in various file formats, but ONLY via FTP. Just for old times' sake. If you don't keep an FTP client installed, try your command line. I bet there's one there. 199.201.145.189 u: nerdcore p: //_]-[_1_P_]-[_0_P_\\

“Center for Conservative Scholarship” and it’s just got packs of crayons and finger paints, dedicated nap time, and for the thesis they might make some macaroni art. Make sure to watch them around the glue, though. It’s been known to mysteriously wind up in digestion tracts when left unattended.

The three types of data structures in computer science are FIFO, LIFO, and FAFO.

Hacker parody of Goodies by Ciara called Hoodies. My hoodies, my hoodies, my hoodies, Not my hoodies (ow!)

Oakland street art. The melting on the sidewalk was a real nice touch.

I can’t believe it, I have discovered a package I want to install that isn’t available in nixpkgs. It’s been a year and this hasn’t happened to me before now. Incredible.

Very cool that I ain't heard shit from the social security administration in ages and now I'm getting Trumpism propaganda delivered to my inbox.

Choosing my handle all those years ago was strategic so that I would be the first name listed on the @defcon.bsky.social music lineup this year. It’s my first year being on stage as an artist at Defcon, and I’m very excited to rap my ass off for you all.

Passkeys have the added bonus of being practically incomprehensible, with varying levels of security contained in the magic word “passkey”, but never really exposed to the user. Bonus points for my password manager, browser, and operating system all competing to lock me into their passkey provider.

A wild @tailscale.com shout out in a PewDiePie video. 2025 is a crazy year. youtu.be/u_Lxkt50xOg?...

It’s insane that all the new @bart.gov fare-evasion gate “upgrades” are not only considerably slower and more error prone, but also don’t show you remaining balance on your card anymore. Am I running low? Anyone’s guess! Will I clog up the line finding out? You absolute betcha.

You mean to tell me they put LEDs in that Zeppelin?

I am doing research for a project and looking for examples of prior work. I find some defcon videos from old defcons. I start to watch the videos and am immediately reminded of an old gripe of mine. Please, for the love of all that is hacking, publish a paper or a blog post of your talk topic.

Big day for terminally online daddy’s boys.

I don't know who needs to hear this but: YOU SHOULDNT BE BOUNCING PASSWORD RESET LINKS THROUGH CLICK TRACKERS

AI is going to replace humans the same way cryptocurrency replaced centralized banking.

CUT MY LIST IN TWO PIECES THAT’S HOW YOU START QUICKSORT