Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 24/06/2026We are excited to announce our first speaker for Unprompted.au: Valentina Palmiotti (@chompie.rip), who will be presenting BinChomp - her autonomous n-day exploit generation pipeline!unprompted.auUnprompted.au 010
Reposted by Mark DowdDistrictCon @districtcon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The Junkyard Call for Bugs is officially open! 👾 www.districtcon.org/junkyard For additional information, please reference our Disclosure Guidance doc: lnkd.in/ewjswJyf And if you missed last years presentations, check them out on YouTube now: www.youtube.com/@DistrictCon... 189
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 05/05/2026The Unprompted.au CFP is officially OPEN! If you are doing cool stuff with AI in offense, defense, or working on core AI tech (from frontier models to open source LLMs), we'd love to hear from you! Submit here: www.unprompted.auunprompted.auUnprompted.au 035
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The unprompted.au website is live. This is an Ai cybersecurity conference that will take place in Sydney in September: www.unprompted.au. Initial ticket offering is live and CFP will open imminentlyunprompted.auUnprompted.au 021
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Brief announcement: Launching Unprompted.au later this year in Sydney — a new conference focused on offensive and defensive security research using AI, and on how AI is reshaping the field. Sister conference to Unprompted. More updates coming soon 183
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 26/11/2025The world in "Predator: Badlands" (Genna) is basically what Americans think Australia is like when I talk to them 120
Reposted by Mark DowdDistrictCon @districtcon.bsky.social · 23/09/2025🪩 CFP closes soon!! 🪩 submit to sessionize.com/districtconsessionize.comDistrictCon Year 1: Call for SessionsEmpowering Hackers Across Industries to do Cool Shit. DistrictCon is a DC hacker con, focusing on hacking together and exchanging ideas over typical t... 046
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Woke up today and chose violence. SMASHED my 5k PB by 28s. New score 18:17!! 080
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 27/07/2025New 10km PB: 38:07! Official race time was 38:43 though (course was 10.2 km apparently). Beat my previous PB by over a minute! 090
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 22/06/2025In all my years in cybersecurity, I don't recall ever attending a talk given by someone with a scouse accent, which is an outrage. I have a presentation coming up this week, maybe if I do some practice I can correct this 030
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Old school programming: I'm going to design a cool game but it's gotta fit in 64k New school programming: I'm going to design a cool game but it's gotta fit in 64k tokens 070
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Vibe coding is rather convenient, but I think one downside of allowing coders to fast track making stuff is missing out on some potentially interesting discoveries had you taken the time to learn the technology. Similar to fuzzing vs manual auditing 1101
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025DistrictCon kicking off with opening remarks from @winnona.bsky.social 0102
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Going viral on Bluesky should be called "the butterfly effect" 0280
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 31/01/2025People like to keep their friends close and their enemies closer. So I guess my advice is to observe the relative distance someone is keeping you at, and if it's closer than other people, you should destroy them. 0110
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 26/01/2025My ancestors originally came to Australia as convicts, eventually getting their freedom. Since then, we mostly haven't reoffended. The system works! Happy Australia Day! 0140
Reposted by Mark DowdDistrictCon @districtcon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025We're officially 1 month away from DistrictCon Year 0! Check out our agenda for talks, exploits, round tables, and more! www.districtcon.org/agendadistrictcon.orgAgenda — DistrictCon 11512
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025DOGE off to a strong start improving govt efficiency. Already fired half of their own management staff. Lead by example eh 180
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 29/12/2024In the business world, we should rename short term contracts to quests. It sounds way cooler. "What do you do for work?" "I'm currently on a quest to streamline logistics for a big importer" 2150
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024When you're too busy hacking to do exercise -- do both! 0282
Reposted by Mark Dowdpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Probably the best time in history to be a mathematician was around 600 BC when you could get rich just for discovering triangles 573655368
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024This site is actually Russian. It's pronounced "blue-skee" 0100
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024If there was a reboot of "The Wire", it'd just be these guys running Signal zero clicks all day 190
Reposted by Mark DowdDistrictCon @districtcon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024DistrictCon Talks Have Been Selected🎙️ www.districtcon.org/speakers Check out our incredible speaker lineup for DistrictCon 2025. Agenda (and more talk announcements) coming soondistrictcon.orgSpeakers — DistrictCon 294
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024It's crazy how there is some tech content here rather than 100% US politics/culture wars 1373
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Woah. Got my bsky account back. That took like 6 months or more 4240
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 19/05/2023Vigilant’s Amat Cama speaking about baseband hacking at offensivecon 050
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 16/05/2023For those going to offensivecon this week - come and say hi! (Also, my company vigilant labs is hiring vuln researchers - let us know if you’re interested. Email is contact@vigilantlabs.com) 061
Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 05/05/2023Met with the “Senior Astronaut Experience Manager” the other day to discuss my eventual flight on Virgin Galactic. It is dawning in me how utterly terrifying it is probably going to be! 000
Reposted by Mark DowdMathy Vanhoef @vanhoefm.bsky.social · 01/05/2023Hello Bluesky! Let's make this first post a shameless plug: if you want to watch one of my recent presentation on new Wi-Fi vulnerabilities see www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEjgFMuwIAcyoutube.com 032
