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Video game, music, and movies aficionado; hacker; and, father of 3 kids.

Ohio
Joined April 2009
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THIS. I’m friends with a couple of them, yet when they’re in the CTF area, I count myself as lucky to get eye contact and a nod. There’s little, if anything, going on at the con that’s more intensive than main CTF.
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The last part of this, almost verbatim, goes through my head every time somebody says they are using a 2nd phone for DEF CON. nitter.gq/Viss/status/8774006696…
Our brains aren't wired to deal with this much information. Stress, anxiety, depression... any wonder why so many experience those?
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Social networks overload us with individual opinions, uninformed editorials, and headlines designed to tell us how to think.
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People are like calzones. It's what's inside that counts.
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Happy 25th birthday, #Linux! Here's your f-ing #cake, go ahead and compile it yourself. – at Bucharest, Romania
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Given current state of the art (and wild-west ad networks), like it or not, ad blockers are important security tech. nitter.gq/mathewi/status/7405781…
The New York Times Is Preparing to Step Up its War on Ad Blockers via @FortuneMagazine for.tn/1WEVDcR?xid=for_tw_sh
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Truth. Communication bandwidth nitter.gq/benjammingh/status/734…
Replying to @beajammingh
Stop pretending video conferencing & IRC/Slack is the same as being in the office as someone. You know it is not.
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.@PlanetZaxxon is so cool he managed to get booked at events that don't even exist
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In case you want to see what an attack absolutely does NOT look like! :)
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Also, kids? Don't DM us pretending you are some school official cancelling school. Closings don't work like that. & we're not that dumb.
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I think alternating runs of 3 years management with 3 years engineering would do a lot of engineering-focused orgs a lot of good. (4/3 ;)
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Quit your fucking whining and code.
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I just finished 2 bottles of wine at dinner, and vendors never found bugs, and attackers invested resources in finding all the 0day.
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Not sure if this is official, but it seems that Google has made BinDiff free :-) zynamics.com/software.html (?) - waiting for official tweet.
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Outthink terrorists and devalue their incentives. Do not stoop to their level.
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Evidently, he comments his code with bugs.
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