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Great talk on community building by @hdm.io and @circuitswan.bsky.social at the @dianainitiative.bsky.social. Definitely one of those talks that I didn’t know I needed till I was there. #defcon33 #CommunityBuilding

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Great talk by @ednas.bsky.social on setting up a #vishing program in your own company and super tips for getting started. #defcon33 #SECommunity

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You sure about this, Google?

A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

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Having a great day at #defcon33, mostly hanging out at the @defconpolicy.bsky.social village. Meeting cool people and having great conversations.

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You and me both. I would love time to really sit and talk with each and all of them. They were very gracious with their time even tho they had somewhere they were going.

Just had an amazing encounter with @shwood.com @deviantollam.bsky.social and the not pictured @emmie.bsky.social and Justin Robert Young!! #FanboyMoment #defcon33

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Great opening talk from @heatherwest.bsky.social for Policy@Defcon! She even tried to answer my ridiculous question. Super excited to see what else the #PolicyAtDEFCON33 village has in store. #DEFCON33 #HackersMeetPolicymakers

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Sign me up. I’ll give a talk on “Why is your backpack so heavy? Avoiding chiropractor bills by not carrying everything you own at a convention.”

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Canyon R @canyonr.com · 07/08/2025

Badge unlocked! Congrats @thedukezip.bsky.social on the great design and important work on the B.A.D.G.E standard. #defcon33

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Just remember that Security is like an Ogre. It’s cumbersome, no one wants to think about it, everyone assumes it lives in a swamp and that it will block you when you try to cross a bridge. Also, it has layers.

Canyon R @canyonr.com · 24/07/2025

Congrats on the new gig! I’m still a few episodes behind on IM but I really appreciate the direction you all have taken it in since the rebranding.

Canyon R @canyonr.com · 19/07/2025

And explaining to the sales person that their “14 day trial“ is going to be more like 45 days to actually get all integrations and testing scheduled and setup.

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Canyon R @canyonr.com · 19/07/2025

What a great idea. I’m betting you got a lot of “No way” and “How did that actually work?” reactions from them.

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Canyon R @canyonr.com · 19/07/2025

The best part is when some senior engineer says “Hey can you get this software for us, we need it for something we’re doing next week?” and you have to explain why buying this thing you’ve never heard of from a vendor you’ve never talked to has a less than 0% chance of happening.

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Canyon R @canyonr.com · 18/07/2025

That whole channel is a fever dream. And yes they have the flip version where Ozzy sings Country Roads.

Canyon R @canyonr.com · 17/07/2025

Starting the timer till they hire Meghan Trainor to do their ads like Chevy did with Bob Seger.

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Canyon R @canyonr.com · 17/07/2025

I don’t care what that study says. The four presentations of Autism are Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello.

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Canyon R @canyonr.com · 16/07/2025

@cdprojektred.com You can stop now. We get that you feel bad about how the release went, and that we laughed at you. 2.1 was great, Phantom Liberty was incredible. You don’t have to keep fixing it. You can let it go, we forgive you. Just go make Witcher 4 or something, it’s ok.

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Canyon R @canyonr.com · 11/07/2025

I’m obviously the guy at 2:00 that is confused why he’s even on this list, but definitely should be on that list.

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Canyon R @canyonr.com · 06/07/2025

Some of you never spent hours wordsmithing a wish spell in D&D and it shows.

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Canyon R @canyonr.com · 03/07/2025

The problem with “thing you know” is that the service/app that you are authenticating to has to know and thus store that “thing you know” and it has been repeatedly shown that web services are REALLY BAD at storing secrets. The benefit of passkeys is that it gives the services no secrets to store.

Canyon R @canyonr.com · 24/06/2025

I’m seriously working on launching a new podcast with a buddy of mine. It’s not a win yet but hopefully will be soon.

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Canyon R @canyonr.com · 20/06/2025

So this is just Sam confirming that they haven’t reached that stage of the enshitification pipeline, yet.

Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Reposted by Canyon R

I got tired of OpenID and decided to write about RSA padding. What could be simpler than RSA padding? Except I made the mistake of asking whether RSA PKCS1v1.5 padding is probably secure and it sent me down a rabbit hole of insanity.

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Canyon R @canyonr.com · 18/06/2025

Oh it’s definitely an issue but it’s been true for résumés since they were invented. Professional ethics is more rare than you would hope. LI just lets us see this “at scale” and marvel at how bad it is. I don’t think there’s anything to “do” about it unfortunately.

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Canyon R @canyonr.com · 18/06/2025

I meant that you should tell the friend that reached out to you what your view of the events on that person’s LI was, not that you should do anything publicly with it. Let them decided if it’s just exaggeration or more. If I was the hiring manager that’s what I would want.

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“We can’t do high standards anymore, we’re all just babies in the gutter now.” #OutOfContext

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? (Repeat previous answer) The amount of websites and applications that run on Amazon’s cloud platform (also Google’s and Microsoft’s to a lesser degree). Every couple years they’ll have an outage and half the internet just stops working.

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Yes! Sometimes there just is no “answer”, there is just making it work again.

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