@TheGibson @1dark1@hackers.town IMPOSTER! 😆

I did a talk at Hack Manhattan on May 18th for their Open Hacker Consortium on the Pirate Box and how it may be utilized in positive ways for marginalized folks and communities! :pirate_flag:

Recorded lovingly onto VHS and made lo-fi because why not!

Physical (digital) Piracy

A call to revive an offline file-sharing and communications system.
https://ohc.nyc/vcr/physical-digital-piracy/

Be the Datarunners and Netrunners you've always wanted to be, Chooms! :hackers_town:

#PirateBox #Sneakernet #HackThePlanet

@krux @binsk ummmm, so if I held some sort of 🥔 sec, would you come to it? I have acres of room for shenanigans

@krux @binsk ilu and miss you - hehe thank you for that 🖤

@1dark1 @binsk 10/10 would go to a drink up with @1dark1 if only being just one state away didn't mean a ten hour drive.

@coleens_ Wow, I'm so happy for you! I hope you feel amazing!

@coleens_ Helloooo! 🖤 I have never been better - you?

@binsk It is indeed, deeply far. My import from Vermont thought we could get home from Seattle in one day, precious thing. States are big out here!

@voltur wait wat - a new Rosetta Stone album?

Looking for all the remote-working (cyber)tech people out here in the sticks is like looking for leprechauns.

Tell all your cool hacker friends who moved out to Idaho to raise goats to come out and drink with us.

https://idasec.org

A simple observation:

"White Hat Hacker" is NOT synonymous with "Ethical Hacker"

You can legally protect an unethical corporation and in doing so, you are an accomplice to their unethical actions.

You can ethically hack to protect people and still be conducting illegal activities.

Do not conflate the two terms.

#hacking #infosec

Yes, it's true, Skytalks is coming to BSides Las Vegas. Their CFP is open, and you can get more information over on their website: https://skytalks.info/

@billyjoebowers Hanlon's Razor

Basically all of the speaking requests I've received over the last six months, all any of them want to talk about is AI, b/c everyone is trying to position themselves as being the perfect partner to usher companies through the madness. I'm probably not going to be asked to do speaking much longer, b/c I find I am fairly hawkish on all the AI hype.

I guess I come from a pretty old-fashioned point of view on technology vs security, which is basically that the more you complexify something, the harder it is to secure. And most of the AI visions that companies are espousing would increase the complexity of security efforts by several orders of magnitude. The issue of data governance is just one small microcosm of that (one in which most fail at miserably already).

I think it's also safe to predict that first movers here (beyond the now entrenched big ones) are going to get clobbered by regulation soon.

my local pharmacy: we need a logo that really conveys “don’t worry, everything is going to be all right, we’re here to help”

brand consultant: I’ve got just the thing chief

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER FIND OUT THEREFORE A COMPUTER SHOULD NEVER FUCK AROUND

@TheGibson I'm a big fan of IRL friends, and it was a fun way to demonstrate the pitch. Maybe we don't need faster cars. Maybe we need happier horses and fewer and better places to run to. Ok that metaphor was a stretch, but my point is that there's nothing that can replace our wetware networks.

@TheGibson Friendship is magic!! I'm so happy to know it inspired you. That's what I aim to do.