iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 13/08/2025

Hey @shwood.com I thought you said you didn't bring any puzzle boxes this year. I found this one in your corner of the @hak5.bsky.social booth after breakdown on Sunday. It's devious but I'm sure I'll figure it out soon...

The Lament Configuration is a puzzle box from the Hellraiser series of movies.

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 09/08/2025

If you see me at @defcon.bsky.social I have free soldering kits I'm giving away! Say hi! Sometimes I'll be hidden in the @defconnextgen.bsky.social village but find me when I'm out and about!

A selfie of me wearing my blue and green octopus hat and a white lab coat.

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 08/08/2025

And not even a full 5 minutes, and I'm ready to bounce. I hate people, except you —you're alright. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioHu...

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Willow Pill - “I Hate People” Performance at RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 14 Finale

YouTube video by WOWPresents

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 08/08/2025

I will be online sporadically during @defcon.bsky.social to try to catch up with people. I've mainly avoided social media for my sanity lately. I don't know if anyone wants to catch up or say hi, but if you do, you'll find me slinging gear at the Hacker Warehouse booth in the mornings.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Tell me the one about "Trump will depoliticize federal law enforcement" again, grandpa. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 02/04/2025

I think in 14 minutes we’re going to have a new historical milestone.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

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Summercon @summerc0n.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

An important announcement from the Summercon Ministry of Secrets: Want things dramatic? Just message @theatlantic.com.

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A wartime poster reminding the audience to use good OPSEC discipline, even when using encrypted messages from Signal.

The text reads:
"ENCRYPTED, SURE-
BUT WHO'S IT FOR?

THE LEAK'S IN YOUR CIRCLE,
NOT IN YOUR SIGNAL."

A MESSAGE FROM THE SUMMERCON MINISTRY OF SECRETS

The graphic shows a hand holding a mobile device running Signal and a silhouette of a man with a large question mark on his head.

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I on the other hand am quite certain they do not.

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Matt Johansen @mattjay.com · 25/03/2025

This. Can you name a more targeted group of people by state level threats and spyware?

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 24/03/2025

I’m limiting my time on social media for my mental health but hope you all had a great weekend and an awesome week! “And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up above cause it’s bugger all down here on earth” youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk?...

youtu.be

Galaxy Song - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

YouTube video by Monty Python

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 21/02/2025

I have tinnitus and single-sided deafness, so the tinnitus acts as my personal white noise generator.

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Mikel EA2CW | AE2CW @ea2cw.eus · 19/02/2025

You can connect to my cluster server: telnet cluster.gautxori.com 7373 and ask for registration, using the command "SP EA2CW" after connection. Thanks!

cluster.gautxori.com

EA2CW DX-Cluster

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Overheard two folks in the Sky Club on their way to DC to try to preserve grant funding with in person meetings. One of them says "if I'd known, I wouldn't have voted for him." Sorry, my empathy is reserved for people who didn't screw the country over.

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 31/01/2025

Tonight’s adventures in sleep apnea, I’ve had mouth breathing issues with the BiPAP and the spouse is displeased. I have chin straps but I want less head gear not more, so now to try this tape thing.

Two different packages of sleeping mouth tape.

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Katelyn 🅅 Medusfour @medus4.com · 28/01/2025

Milestone achieved!! We still have iOS beta spots available

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 23/01/2025

Reminded of one of my favorite movie lines today: “Ok, so when you say ‘EJECT EJECT EJECT’ do I say ‘ROGER’ or ‘OK….?” “If you even say ‘huh’ you’re going to be talking to yourself.”

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Solid Gold Robot @solidgoldrobot.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Even beyond the obvious terribleness of a US official attacking a preacher for their sermon, in this case it's even more absurd, when we realize that they are outraged because a Christian preacher dared to suggest that people should be merciful. Members of the modern GOP are not Christian.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I know, but it's just an application of one of my favorite memes:

Screen cap from one of the Thor movies featuring a dark haired pale skinned woman as Thor's sister Hela. She has her hand out stopping Thor's hammer (Mjölnir) in mid air. The hammer is labeled "It's basic biology". Hela is labeled "Advanced Biology"

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

They really are.

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 19/01/2025

Moana in an exceptionally photogenic moment

A sleeping cat.
The cat is a mute tortoise shell calico.

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 14/01/2025

The @shmoocon.bsky.social badges on either end really ties it all together

A collection of security conference attendance badges.

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 14/01/2025

So much for wanting to be a nice person One question haunts and hurts Too much, too much to mention Was I really seeking good Or just seeking attention? Is that all good deeds are when looked at with an ice-cold eye? If that's all good deeds are Maybe that's the reason why youtu.be/rgTjdsYGk10?...

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Watch WICKED's New Elphaba Hannah Corneau Belt Out "No Good Deed"

YouTube video by Broadwaycom

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Eric Capuano @eric.zip · 13/01/2025

This is why end-users hate IT/security teams.

a user reporting a phishing email to their IT team

the same user being assigned phish training for supposedly falling for a phish test.

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ShmooCon @shmoocon.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Thanks for joining us at ShmooCon 2025. Lead with kindness and continue achieving great things.

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 12/01/2025

Don’t be sad that @shmoocon.bsky.social is ending. Be joyful that it happened.

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 12/01/2025

Thank you Heidi and all of the volunteers, staff, and speakers over the years for making @shmoocon.bsky.social what it was! Enjoy your well deserved retirement.

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 12/01/2025

It’s time for Bluey and cookies.

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Garrett Miller @garrettmiller.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Other badge "SVAQ" rot13's to FIND

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 11/01/2025

These are the hashes in the image 4fb1e73f69cf179488217f01f81e8135 deb9a63c1d6a50833ce671474cf58de1 #cyberdeckchallenge

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Kimmy 🅅 @kimmy.zip · 10/01/2025

A second hash has hit the hacker

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 11/01/2025

The true history of this is horrifying. When that Watchmen show was on HBO I had to explain to many people that it wasn't an alternate timeline thing; that happened. And it happened many times in many places.

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Andrew Shumate @andrewshumate.com · 11/01/2025

For the badge challenge @shmoocon.bsky.social it’s ROT13 so NAPVRAG=ANCIENT

The back of a Shmoocon badge for 2025 wit NAPVRAG which is rot 13 encoded and results in the word ancient.

There is a horizontal line.

Then there is ~Lead With Kindness~

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