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Brian Baskin

@bbaskin.bsky.social
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Just someone that dabbles in threat research, malware analysis, RE, incident response, CTFs, and old school forensics. Apologetic ginger.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I 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
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I knew LANDMVRKS had songs in French but didn't realize until tonight they were actually from France
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A 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 🔥 🔥
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We'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)
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Thank 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.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
When you sign off a meeting and your system just randomly gives a notification
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
As a malware analyst I am uniquely qualified to explain that a file with a Virustotal score of 30/72 is actually legit
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Slack's shame mode while I'm OOO on PTO is on point
Me: Making a post to work Slack at 6:40AM while on PTO

Slackbot: Hey! We love seeing you, but aren't you supposed to be offline?
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Of all the year-end wrap-ups, our expensing system has the best
Ramp EOY review. Award for expensing a 1€ bathroom visit in Gare du Nord Paris
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This is the fun of my Friday evenings...
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Partial LinkedIn access on PC, but banned from phone still. Using LinkOff extension, one of the best things ever. Hides all junk so that LinkedIn is actually usable. Partially hides useless posts so I can see real activity.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I 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.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
When 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
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The work day has just barely started and I already know that I'm going to be in a bad mood
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
AI is going to take over the world!
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I cut out TV and games for the last five weeks to focus. Making up for lost time starting tonight
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
AI - Master of the backhanded compliment
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I just need to monitor these two bytes at 0x...c8. 10PM brain: Sure. Query "0x...c8 to 0x...c10" Computer go brrrrr for an hour 🫠
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The 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)
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Debugging is a long journey Plan random rest breaks along the way
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
A gorgeous start to GrrCon
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Rewriting 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.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
For 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.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
And had an awesome time being back at @bsideslv.org and DEF CON, for the inaugural Malware Village! You wouldn't guess which of these two talks was the most stressful to prepare 😂
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Home 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.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
My 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 😂
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Firing up the "aggressively working out of hotel room" playlist
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Huge admiration to custom badges and CTF made for the Sublime Security company retreat. Amazing work!
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Slide deck for 20-min talk is almost complete...
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
As 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
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Making my life difficult by committing to a theme for a presentation by converting all images into 'stickers' Dozens and dozens of them.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Vegas party invites are starting to go out. Respect to the effort.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
TIL 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
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Submitted without context
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
To 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)
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Yall, I'm not just throwing crap on a slide. This is my testbed (dining room table) I've invested way too much money and time into this already. I just picked up five laptops from a gov't liquidator for the more destructive testing 😂 This "fun" talk is stressing me out 😅
Nine laptops under various stages of chemical and heat testing
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I'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.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I've had this game on pause for most of the week just because I don't want to rebuild the cheat table again
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
New project is underway ... First set of supplies have arrived Got a lot more fun stuff coming ...
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
After an hour of comparing specs at midnight to overnight a new CPU, sometimes Claude just tells you what you need to know best. Cutting through BS marketing of Ryzen 5 v. 7 v. 9, 5500 v. 5600 v. 5600x v. x3D, and no Reddit PC Master Race pre-judging your decision.
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is the first time a hard drive diagnostic has me staring at the clock and sweating...
Hard drive S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic tool showing 11 days until a drive dies
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
07k now in the workshop. I guess we have a new project in the household now. On top of other new ones ...
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
My son asked to borrow my SUV ... I think I made a mistake
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Your BSidesCharm organizers spent an hour unpacking and setting up board games for the Saturday party. Including punching out hundreds of magnet words...
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The calm before the storm at BSidesCharm...
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We're down to just days in the countdown to BSidesCharm. It's starting to become real. POV: my car filled with hundreds and hundreds of (sold-out) T-shirts, and badges.
Vehicle filled to the brim with boxes of t-shirts and badges for BSidesCharm event
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Approaching the two year anniversary of the car crash I can't forget the level of privilege I have as a paid professional. So many people I've talked to had to quit recovery early because they cannot take time off work and cannot pay the costs. Because the bills never stop...
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It was with great sadness that I made the hard call to abort. Better to lose network connections than in-memory data...
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
oh noes! I tripped ... I don't know if I can win this one ...
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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
An epic game tug-of-war, but I'm slowly gaining ground by killing apps off...
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