Just a week to go until our last @dc151.org of the year! For our last meetup, we've got @laurenspokes4.bsky.social presenting her talk "The Christmas Pi" All details in the link - hope to see as many of you as possible there: dc151.org/december-202...

Woohoo. It’s nearly Orange Club time ❤️

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#BSidesLDN2025 #WorkShops

The final ticket release for #BSidesLDN2025 is now live! bit.ly/BSidesLDN202... #BSides #London #Tickets

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From Private Eye 🤣🤣

I've been playing with @nzyme.org for a few years now. Last year I took it to @bsideslondon.bsky.social to road test the wifi detection features, and wrote about it here: clarkee.co.uk/experimentin...

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

If only someone could have predicted that uploading your ID to age verification services was a bad idea and that ultimately one of these providers was going to get popped…..

Whoop - it's October and we're back. This time with our very own Dan giving a talk on manipulating our AI overlords to do naughty things. Meeting at the usual time. Deets in the link: dc151.org/october-2025...

So, they do have an issue with free speech after all. Local lad gives articulate interview to the media and gets abused, pushed, shoved and chased by this set of absolute tossers. Makes me embarrassed to share their nationality

Well, looks like I've somehow hit 1000 followers on here so, to celebrate, I'll revive a favourite thread on the other place from July 2023 when Threads launched.

Any of my Northern friends (or at least are in the North in the next 5 days) heading to BSides Bristol ? I have a MASSIVE (but hopefully simple) favour to ask.

Wow. Just. Wow.

Something about stopped clocks twice a day. Really infuriating that I actually agree with anything Reform say. The trouble is, now, the horse has bolted. The genie is out of the lamp and we’re slightly buggered.

July's event is now posted. Presentation 1: Daniel Raines: My hacking adventures as a software dev Presentation 2: TBC 19:00 for 19:30, downstairs bar, The Greene Man, 383 Euston Road Closest stations: Great Portland Street, Warren Street, Regents Park, Euston. dc4420.org

Wrote a thing. grokconsulting.co.uk/privacy-engi...

Suffering from mild disbelief that it's already July and time to announce our next meetup. 2 great speakers this month (9th July). All details in the link: dc151.org/july-2025-me...

Have you got any old tech lying around that is too good to throw out but too much effort to sell on? If you bring it along to our bring and buy stall then you can make room on your shelf for some cool new stuff while also making some cash for charity. A win for everyone.

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

This is a very good, succinct piece by Ben Saul. "International law is only law if we demand that our allies, not only our adversaries, obey it. If we apply it selectively, we cannot expect others to respect it, or to respect us."

This is incredible

Reminder that we're back as usual tomorrow (Weds 11th June)

PSA: label your Yubikeys kids 🤨

Sharing's caring. Make me poorer by following these tips: grokconsulting.co.uk/seven-essent...

Update for this months #DC151. We're really happy to have Anicet Fopa Tchoffo, CISSP joining us to present his talk: "Deploying Operational Honeypots for High-Fidelity Threat Detection and Intelligence" Wednesday 11th June at the usual place and time. dc151.org/june-2025-me...

Hey @dc4420 & any other Hackers in the area I’ll be at 56/59 Strand, London WC2N 5LR, United Kingdom at 18:00ish for an hour or so having pizza come say hi! I’ll have hugs & stickers! 😊 #HackerAdventures #HackerMeetUp

I notice that at times a laptop will change the colour temperature from ~6500K to nearer 5000K making the image look more yellowish. Is this some standard OS feature somewhere, and does anybody know how to turn it off?

"But what if you didn't have to do the fun and rewarding stuff?!" - AI fetishists for some reason

Important Announcement 📣 #defcongroups dc151.org/dc151-indepe...

Oh my god "We believe the group has accessed and downloaded a significant amount of personal data from those who applied for legal aid through our digital service since 2010." www.gov.uk/government/n...

PSA: If you choose to submit a novel research talk to one of the top security conferences in the world, maybe check your proposal text all the way through so "Claude may make mistakes. Please check your answers." isn't the final line.

The scammer is on the phone to you. Their accomplice is on the phone to your bank, pretending to be you. Your bank sends you the notification. You accept, and scammers proceed to drain your account. Full write up: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05... 🧵🔚

May is upon us, and we've got a couple of awesome speakers this month. Usual place and time on Weds 14th May Full details are at: dc151.org/may-2025-mee...

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

A few quick notes on the Erlang OTP SSHd RCE (CVE-2025-32433) [1/3] 1. Cisco confirmed that their ConfD and NSO products are affected. The ConfD patch is planned for May. These often run on ports 830, 2022, and 2024 versus 22. sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/cen...

And some of the doomers don't think AGI is already here. Wake up sheeple.

@dc4420.bsky.social The resuscitation edition of DC4420 will be on Tuesday 29th April 2025 commencing from 19:00. New venue is: Greene Man (Euston),383 Euston Road,London,NW1 3AU (maps.app.goo.gl/mPahakU6ZFmQ...) Nearest Tube: Great Portland Street, Warren Street. · Share · Like · Enjoy

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

No speaker at DC151 this month but we'll be meeting for a social at the usual place and time. Head down for a beer or a brew :) (9th April, Cross Keys. Leeds, 7pm onwards or earlier if you feel like it!) dc151.org/april-2025-m...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Did an #LLM help write Trump’s trade plan? "In Taming Silicon Valley, I warned that #LLMs would be used for dumb things that would affect lots of people. I rest my case." ~ @garymarcus.bsky.social garymarcus.substack....#LLM#LLMs#GenerativeAI

No, Britain did not get off lightly in the Trump tariffs. And no, it is not much of a vindication of Brexit. Or at the least seeing it is an economic dividend is to conveniently look away from the more substantial economic costs. New writing from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Scammers have got no staying power these days :(

Meh. gif of the day......