Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This. This thread is why I still use social media 🦖 120
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Well deserved. Thanks for all you do in our community! 010
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would take it one step further…I would only be shocked if a researcher came forward and said, “I reviewed the code of every network appliance sold by a company - say, Netgear or Cisco or F5 - and found ZERO hardcoded credentials or secrets.” The CVE databases are littered with examples. 🦖 000
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026StillNotOil dot com? ShortArmsLongReach dot com? 110
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I am officially on the road trip! If my stubby arms can reach the camera there shall be photos 🦖 120
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Onid may be on a road trip soon. He doesn’t reverse engineer malware anymore, but he’s still a security dinosaur! 111
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 20/08/2026How old are the other dinosaurs? How old am I? 🦖 110
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I cried handing over my badge/phone/laptop after the layoff. It’s an emotional transition after so many years. Please reach out if you want to talk to someone who’s been there and knows some of what you’re going through. 🫂 020
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Before you get your hopes up, the corporate response is probably still, “____ is not a security boundary.” 🦖 110
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 22/07/2026We are less without you, and I am sorry to see you go. Please stay in touch and if there’s anything I can do to help, please let me know!static.klipy.comSad Stitch in the RainALT: Sad Stitch in the Rain 010
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 16/07/2026If you assemble a crew for a heist to steal the project back…I’m in. 🦖 120
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Don’t threaten me with a good time - now I need to go find out how many peaches that takes! 😁 010
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 03/06/2026What are you worried about? Would a zombie sourdough apocalypse get in the way of **gestures vaguely in every direction** 000
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 26/05/2026“Unless it’s putting another 90’s era RCE vulnerability into notepad.exe then I don’t think we need to invest the time. All in favor of skipping this meeting and shipping the code without review?” 🦖 000
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 21/05/2026And now we play a game I like to call “Haaaaaaave you met Onid the T Rex?” 🦖 000
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Isn’t there another basic buffer overflow bug in the authentication stack of Palo Alto devices this week? Maybe AI can fix what static analysis tools and books on secure software development cannot… 🦖 010
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 07/05/2026“Print your own passports instead” was a bit more anarchist of advice than I expected from you 🦖 010
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Duolingo is now distributing malware? That may be one enshittification too far… 000
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Rotate every password. It’s the only way to be sure 🦖 030
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Everything is customizable when you know OS internals and are willing to reverse engineer apps 🦖 010
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Every. Single. Year I have to vote on new taxes to fund my local schools, but never once has any other funding been in jeopardy. It’s almost like all those new taxes aren’t actually getting to the schools at all… 000
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I can 100% guarantee the next issue I have to vote for will be yet another tax increase proposal to fund schools. Isn’t it odd how I have never once been asked to fund all of those non-school budget items? 🤔 000
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Late night pings are only really bad in security on a Friday 🦖 Nobody reports a breach on a Thursday! 010
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I confess I haven’t done the reading but has anyone been treating the concept more seriously than flying cars? It’s so impractical it shouldn’t be worth a feasibility study. 000
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 01/02/2026I’ve started writing my thoughts in PowerPoint structure and then tried going back to write paragraphs or chapters in that layout. When I can’t write I can still PowerPoint, and vice versa. 010
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 01/02/2026I thought business school taught several lessons about building products that meet demand, not demanding consumers that meet products? 000
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 01/02/2026My resume is still poorly written, all these years later 🤦♂️ if I ever need it in the future I’m going to make it look like the resumes coming out of North Korea. They’ve got the format down 🦖 000
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 27/01/2026We need dashboard maintenance and reduction efforts. In this presentation I walk the audience through the interface of my new Dashboard-Reduction Dashboard… 🦖 020
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I have contemplated doing some long-term scientific research into Copilot but I don’t present at conferences anymore and don’t work for a team that publishes content. 🤔 I have thoughts about both how to cause leakage, and how to measure leakage. 100
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Everyone seems spread out to me. And I know I’m not the only person who stopped or cut back on infosec posting as a result. If we ever get critical mass somewhere, I’ll upload a dinosaur portrait and come hang out! 🦖 010
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Do I still count as a security researcher if crime gangs are still sending me harassing packages in the mail? I’ve been out of the game for a few years now. A literal security dino 🦖 110
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 26/12/2025I love engineering debt. They’re the reverse mortgages of software development. And after watching the first two-thirds of the MC Hammer documentary I have learned that the money never stops flowing… 🦖 010
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 19/12/2025I wish more browsers had command line switches to disable JavaScript so I just need a desktop shortcut to start a search for recipes 🦖 000
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 13/12/2025As a reminder, by a large majority the clergy voted and preached in favor of this administration. 🤷♂️ A large majority. 000
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 13/12/2025This happens in software, too! A common issue will be a build framework or test automation framework will stop supporting certain OS or configuration options, so everyone stops testing or supporting those platforms 010
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 12/12/2025It’s easy to assume all software is buggy and poor quality because of corporate greed and cost cutting. But it turns out there are quite a few reasons why these bugs and user-hated features keep appearing everywhere. They take for a fun deep-dive, at least for me as a former software engineer 110
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 12/12/2025I thought about creating a weekly blog called “Enshitification Explained” after encountering a feature with zero (literally zero) customer demand. The feature didn’t make it out of beta testing after furious customer feedback, but it would have boosted the KPIs tracked by the engineering team. 🤦♂️😤 010
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Vancouver please…no offense to Toronto, I’m sure you’re lovely 110
Onid the T-Rex @onidthetrex.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Who are you going to believe, thousands of scientists with decades of data, or some corrupt politicians with a personal agenda? Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion 🦖 010
