Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I decided to have AI help me redesign my home network for a work malware VLAN ... it did not go well. $250 and hours of troubleshooting later, ChatGPT finally admits its error 110
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026A break from PTO chilling to catch an awesome show with Poppy, LANDMVRKS, and Thousand Below. The first show of their US tour and it was 🔥 🔥 100
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Lazy web while camping: trying to find a first car for teen but Facebook bans viewing listings unless you're 18 years old Is there any good solution to sharing details of a listing? Other than taking a dozen screenshots or printing to pdf from laptop? 000
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026We're still in the middle of a heat wave but also need a pure disconnect period to break in the camper I've been slowly restoring. First win, the A/C actually works! (trips circuit at home) 120
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Thank you BSidesVancouver for an awesome event. Happy to present on a modern, unique targeted phishing account, and then win the event @corelight-inc.bsky.social CTF. Credit to the CoreLight platform. I've never used it before but picked it up quickly to finish first. 010
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026When you sign off a meeting and your system just randomly gives a notification 010
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026As a malware analyst I am uniquely qualified to explain that a file with a Virustotal score of 30/72 is actually legit 170
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Slack's shame mode while I'm OOO on PTO is on point 050
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Excited that Sublime Security will be hosting a webinar with @johnhammond.bsky.social on newer email trends. Attackers are shifting to low volume abuse of legitimate services like opportunistic abuse of legitimate services and calendar phishing. sublime.security/events/trend...sublime.securityTrends to watch in 2026: Calendar phishing and opportunistic service abuse · Events · Sublime Security 010
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026The BSidesCharm CFP is accepting 50-min and 20-min talks. So far, less than 20% of submissions are 20-mins. I don't know who needs to hear this, but shorter talks have a higher likelihood of being accepted ... 141
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Of all the year-end wrap-ups, our expensing system has the best 031
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025A gift to myself is fixing my voice. After years of public speaking it took just one car accident w/ yrs of recovery to completely change my speech Now, w/ presentations being scheduled, I realize that I need to fix it. A lot of muscles to retrain, and looking for good resources 120
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/11/2025I use a chrome extension to remove shittified posts from LinkedIn, such as people liking things. LinkedIn has now continually banned me from using it on any platform. 430
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025When you use your personal email for a work project and end up screwing yourself for 24 hours... New distraction task, find out how my scripts hit a 2000/day limit so quickly 010
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Today was my 8th time under anesthesia within the last year. Joked with anesthesiologist about having a frequent sleeper card to punch while I'm out. Get 10 and get a free breakfast at hospital café 😂 (because each requires fasting through breakfast) 070
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025The work day has just barely started and I already know that I'm going to be in a bad mood 110
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025I had some time to work on the RE Rust Tickler challenges from @HuntressLabs recent CTF. Specifically, I wanted to focus on @vector35 Binary Ninja's TTD implementation Over weekend I made some quick write-ups on how I approached these easier challenges. github.com/Rurik/CTF/tr...github.comCTF/Huntress_2025 at master · Rurik/CTFVarious CTF code. Contribute to Rurik/CTF development by creating an account on GitHub. 021
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025I cut out TV and games for the last five weeks to focus. Making up for lost time starting tonight 010
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 18/10/2025LinkedIn: AI is going to take over the world! Be prepared Twitter: AI is kinda helping. It can do some cool things Me: If Claude was a person I would be in jail for aggravated assault 110
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025The Binary Ninja 5.2 dev release is showing some amazing work with their new Time Travel Debugging (TTD) interface. This makes a huge impact on analysis! (and fits well on my UW monitor) 162
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Debugging is a long journey Plan random rest breaks along the way 3160
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025#flareon12 reduced to four weeks, meanwhile the first week I'm preparing a talk and work traveling ... I should tack on days and sequester myself in a hotel room with room service the entire time 020
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Rewriting Noriben to be class-based Python, now that I'm learning it properly. And playing with process tree output ... As I do all my best work from hotel rooms. 030
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 30/08/2025When somewhere along the line a dash in your text was converted to an emdash and now you're afraid everyone will think AI wrote it. Back in my day we accepted grammar fixes without question ... 020
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 25/08/202510 years ago: "This code is too simple. No helper functions, no documentation. You must have copied it from StackOverflow." Today: "This code is too complex. Too many helper functions and solid documentation. You must have used AI." 030
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025For the "did we run into each other at Vegas?" questions, this is my standard dress code for all events 😂 Too bad there's not more room for stickers, being strategic about which to use. You'll also find me with the cane at future events so I'm easy to spot. 020
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Home from Vegas and recovering from sickness. But left with a lot of memories. It's been years since I was properly out and I really missed seeing all my friends. 120
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 07/08/2025And cue the random taxi drivers with "DEF CON? So, my phone and all my accounts are hacked. How can I tell if it's a foreign government?" questions 040
Reposted by Brian BaskinThe Officially Unofficial DEF CON Sticker Swap @dcstickerswap.bsky.social · 29/07/2025The Officially Unofficial Sticker Swap will be held Saturday, August 9th from 2pm to 4pm in the HallwayCon Lounge area on Level 2. Spread the word… 073
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/08/2025My love to the @bsideslv.org team. Being a ginger, and not a day walker, there was a real risk of me dying from the sun. So they gifted me a safety package with umbrella 😂 020
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Firing up the "aggressively working out of hotel room" playlist 000
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Huge admiration to custom badges and CTF made for the Sublime Security company retreat. Amazing work! 010
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Exhaustion: When you spend two hours trying everything to inject a DLL into a process to drop data, in every which way possible, and then realize you're working on the wrong file. 000
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Vegas will be fun and pleasantly crushing next week. Eight days, four events, and giving two talks For friends I haven't seen since pre-COVID, I'm now sober (still drink at bars) and walk with a limp but am still the same ginger you know and love ... now with long curly hair! 140
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025As someone who over-relies on emojis to ensure wrong tone isn't sent, that an automatic Windows update killed emoji panel is frustrating Microsoft admitted the bug then put fix in an optional update (image rolleyes since emoji is broken) learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window... So, go update 000
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Making my life difficult by committing to a theme for a presentation by converting all images into 'stickers' Dozens and dozens of them. 110
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Vegas party invites are starting to go out. Respect to the effort. 020
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025TIL the melting point of a laptop screen internals is roughly 200*F/94*C. Surprisingly, once cooled down, most of the screen returns. Permanent damage but not unusable 110
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/06/2025To understand authoritarian government regime change one must look further back in time to similar structures. Most notably, when the AV industry colluded to classify benign cracks and trainers as malicious. In this TED Talk I will (1/16) 010
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025That moment you realize you had deleted a crucial VM snapshot last month because you assumed your talk wouldn't get picked up ... and it did. Self doubt FTW 020
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I'm very excited to be accepted to speak at @bsideslv.org this year! Keeping Our History Alive: The Hacker’s Guide to Sticker Preservation I explore the role stickers play in hacker culture w/ a scientific focus on best methods to reuse old stickers to find your tribe in a crowd. 162
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025The biggest culture shock in moving from a global tech corporation to a startup is that there is not a No Hello rule. 110
Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I've had this game on pause for most of the week just because I don't want to rebuild the cheat table again 000