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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Black Hat/DEFCON packing list: Bring: ☐ Comfy shoes - 3-10mi/day ☐ USB Battery ☐ Meds +2 days ☐ Duffle for swag haul home Skip: ☐ Corp badge & laptop - I use Chromebook+O365 ☐ Bottle - Bus Hall has plenty ☐ Burner phone - Just patch, avoid sketch wifi + disable BT ☐ Backpack - Black Hat reg gift

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

AI has a strong confirmation bias - naturally so, because pissing off users does not build a business. But intentionally asking for dissent is a powerful concept. Try this prompt out: "My plan is _. Give me the 5 best arguments against this plan, and propose alternatives that I should consider."

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yesterday’s yard sale find: Vintage Jameco protoboard and power supply!

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Claude Code making easy work of migrating from VMware to Proxmox in my homelab.

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

while holiday_season: eat_cookies() ignore_jira_tickets() if family_member_asks_for_wifi: deploy_guest_network() print("Happy Holidays, world! May your builds be green and your salts be strong.")

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Amazon drones are now delivering packages in DFW!

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Serious soldering! Kiddo will present her invention, the "Peace Pal", at the BSides DFW conf on Sat at 9:30am. This project is part "Maker Community" & part "Mental Health Hacking". It has music, calming LEDs, upcycled parts, microcontrollers, vibe coding, and TSwift references. See bsidesdfw.com

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Reminder: Windows 10 is now end-of-support. A lot of risk registers are getting updated this week!

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Don't blindly trust AI for cybersecurity management! Many common Cyber Threat Intel metrics show busyness, not actual risk reduction. AI is useful, but only when focused on the right goals.

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Batten down the hatches! Between the panic about Sharepoint last week and Black Hat coming up soon, expect to hear a lot of cybersecurity hype in the near future.

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

There is a certain irony in DEFCON swag being co-opted for a very different purpose.

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

What can nerds do to keep a garden from drying out? Build a DIY IoT moisture monitor! Mine uses a $7 ESP32C3 and $1.25 sensor, logs data to my homelab via Wi-Fi every minute, and sleeps most of the time to save battery. Next upgrade: solar charging!

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Me: Copilot, do this thing. Copilot: Do it yourself

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Why TF is Webex ML Host using 11% of my CPU at idle and more memory than the entire Webex app? 👀

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Political uprising, barricades and scuffles with the military? The news on South Korea is resembling Les Misérables. youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U?...

youtu.be

Les Misérables | Do You Hear the People Sing?

YouTube video by Universal Pictures

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Let’s be real: No amount of AI can fix your broken security culture. Train your people. Build strong processes. That's your true defense.

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

In my expert opinion - as a Marketing major with 20 years of business experience - this new branding for Jag is what we call "Awful"

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🔥 take: InfoSec vendors love selling you shiny tools. But if you don't have a great team that knows how to use them, you’re just lighting money on fire.

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SteveD3 (Steve Ragan) @steved3.io · 07/02/2024

My friend Krypt3ia is still searching for a remote CTI role after being caught in the layoff cycle. He's got years of solid experience and technical chops - including LLM training. If you've got leads, ping me and I can pass them along or share his resume. RT for reach pls.

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Ben Goerz @bengoerz.bsky.social · 12/05/2023

"I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men, the former are so much the freer."

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