Tod Beardsley

Okay this #BSidesSF is shaping up to be pretty ridiculous.

Today is my oldest kid's, Molly's, birthday, and she would have been 30 today if she wasn't dead from a gunshot, bringing to a close a rocky few years dealing with opioid addiction.

Miss you, kiddo.

Anyway, just typing it out loud. And also, let me share a link to one of the best essays I've ever read about America's completely fucked up relationship with the Second Amendment and private gun ownership. It looks like it recently went behind a Substack subscription, but it's archived, here:

https://archive.ph/kXbXd

Quoting:

One aspect of the gun debate that rarely gets mentioned because it’s overshadowed by mass shootings is the fact that widespread gun ownership creates elevated suicide rates. To put it bluntly, it’s much easier to commit suicide with a gun than with other methods.

As a result, the fact that it’s so easy to get a gun means that people who are experiencing suicidal thoughts are more easily able to act on them, spurring senseless and preventable tragedies. The US is home to just four percent of the global population, but home to, by far, the largest proportion of suicides by firearm (44 percent of the total globally).

RE: @hdm@infosec.exchange

Well that was fun. You can catch the recording here:

https://www.runzero.com/resources/runzero-hour-28/

Just amigos talkin OT, pretty chill and fun. Thanks again, chat, for keeping things fun and spicy.

Hey internet. I'm hiring for a vuln researcher/exploit dev/hacker type.

US preferred, UK okay.

Reports to me, in the research engineering team at @runZeroInc@infosec.exchange.

HMU if you're interested, and then fill out the thing. If you use a name different from the one I know you as, please be clear about that so I can tag the (internal) recruiter with that info.

Listing:

https://www.runzero.com/about/careers/apply/?gh_jid=5829740004

Do you have to be high to enjoy open world RPGs? I’m giving #Cyberpunk 2077 another whirl and I wonder if I’ve been doing it wrong by not getting blazed first.

So are we going to get #ICE goons to help out with #CISA too?

I’m sure they’d be just as great at the #KEV

I don’t care for the fact that Juiceland now sells masticatable comestables.

Everything should be in a slurry form.

Solids are for chumps.

So did anyone happen to pirate @k8em0@infosec.exchange’s rendition of “You’ll Adapt?” from her #BsidesSF keynote?

If you were there, you will surely agree that it should be nominated for the Best Song Pwnie Award this year.

I have hacked time itself in order to learn about the current and future state of CVE.

Check it out at RSAC Moscone South in what you would call “this” morning.

https://path.rsaconference.com/flow/rsac/us26/FullAgenda/page/catalog/session/1755470003779001WEMM

Hey, #TongaCon is back. San Francisco-bound nerds who like tiki nonsense, take heed.

Sign up if you're hoping to go. Don't if you're not.

Pirate attire is optional but encouraged.

https://luma.com/cgaloemt

RE: @simple_sabotage@mastodon.social

I like how this one pronounced sabotage like that one alien lady in Star Trek: Undiscovered Country

This is "news" but it strikes me weird.

TL;dr: sometimes super expensive #Stingray gear shows up on eBay. My question: who's the audience for this? $50k-$100k is out of reach for hacker types, or organized crime, who can build their own for much less, and foreign adversaries or domestic cops will buy their own from normal surveillance tech companies, not eBay.

https://san.com/cc/ice-uses-this-device-to-surveil-cell-phones-you-can-buy-one-for-50000

(Added CW because the card for the news story is scary militarized cops)

All candidate-side election software for Democrats, near as I can tell, was invented entirely during the first Obama campaign, and then kinda sorta maintained and expanded since then. Just mountains and mountains of tech debt, and every time the vendors ship a feature it breaks like 3 other things.

Oh, real IT support, I've kinda missed you as a job.

Anyway, I'm curious if the Republican side is similar (also, it's funny that there's no one vendor for both sides; the vendors in this space definitely pick a lane and stick to it -- see ActBlue vs WinRed).

The decor at the hotel I’m staying at is reminding me strongly of #OxygenNotIncluded. Am I in danger?

RE: @patrickcmiller@infosec.exchange

I wonder how valuable these poached prompts are, or if the extension authors just like watching users get dumber and dumber as they farm out thinking to the machine.

RE: @locuta@mstdn.social

SUPER

Just so you (and my employer and family) know, I have written down "Cancelling free and fair elections" as my Rubicon, which means I'll be rioting in the streets until elections are restored.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YFdwfNh5vs

And yes, it's a little squishy to define what counts, but watch the video to get the context, and I do mean "cancelling free and fair elections" and my intention to riot literally.

It'll be really inconvenient if it happens.

#BSidesSF part two!

The vendor hall is basically an ear worm factory and I am kinda loving it.

(Needs more Oklahoma and Music Man.)

You in #Texas? North Austin out to Odessa and Temple?

Then you can help put Texas and the US back on track by voting for Claire Reynolds or Justin Early for #Congress. They’re both #Democrats and both ready to take back Congress’s Constitutional authority to check this mad executive branch.