Sean Gallagher 
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@thepacketrat@infosec.exchange
Security Research Engineer @Cisco Talos. Past: Natsec/Infosec Editor Emeritus @ Ars Technica. Ex Navy officer and actual battleship sailor. Verified cat furniture. Bird paparazzo. Still mostly s***posting as @thepacketrat@twitter.com. Also federating @thepacketrat and @thepacketrat
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Regrettably, I will not be at Black Hat, DEFCON or BSides LV again this year. I will instead be packing a subset my parents' belongings out of their house into a UHaul trailer as we put their house up for sale.
Last year at this time, I had been shuttling back and forth between Baltimore and upstate NY for over a month, and it was becoming clear that my dad had not been particularly forthcoming about his or my mom's medical situation. By September, we were staging an emergency evacuation of the two of them to Baltimore to find a new surgeon for my dad.
For those of you who've been following me for a bit, you may recall this did not turn out the way my dad expected--he had an amputation below the knee. My mother's "memory issues" were in fact dementia of an indeterminate type, though her nurse practitioner PCP had labeled it Alzheimer's and my dad had never shared that information with me.
Anyway, here we are, preparing for another 1k mile round trip to handle my parents' unfinished business: selling their RV, getting the house in shape to be shown, begging landscapers/tree specialists/roofers to take time out of their busy season to handle our requests that my dad had cancelled through a friend behind our backs, and offloading his vast Lionel and N-Gauge train hoard to someone, among other things.
Safe travels to infosec/hacker summer campers; maybe I'll be back next year.