iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Last week for CanSecWest submissions. Vancouver, Sept 30 / Oct 1. Keynotes: Bruce Schneier and Katie Moussouris. Sergey Bratus on automated micro-patching. Paper announcements coming to the site as we proceed. CFP and registration: secwest.net 🧵

Aerial view of Vancouver’s Coal Harbour skyline and marina, overlaid with a cyan targeting reticle highlighting the Pinnacle Harbourfront hotel. A wireframe magnification panel promotes CanSecWest 2026 at Pinnacle Harbourside, September 30–October 1, with the website secwest.net.

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Please tell your friends, four weeks before @phrack.org submission deadline! We also are seeking both interior and cover art. We are working with our friends at @pagedout.bsky.social again to create a fancy interior design for our main annual release!! Be a part of hacker history!

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Phrack Zine @phrack.org · 27/05/2026

We're looking for a cover for the next issue of Phrack! Retro sci-fi, terminals, dystopian systems, chrome futures, hacker manuals from an alternate timeline. Make something timeless and strange. Send your work or idea to arts@phrack.org Deadline June 30th

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Phrack Zine @phrack.org · 25/05/2026

Phrack wants your art! The theme for this issue is retro sci-fi / old-school cybernetic futures. But we accept all kinds of contributions :) ANSI, illustration, collage, renders, weird experiments. Send it to: arts@phrack.org Deadline June 30th

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

If you are wondering what it takes to get published in phrack click through to the CFP for areas of interest but tl:dr the requirements are: offensive security research 10-20pgs deep dive on internals/theory Proven practical demo and source code snapshot. submissions@phrack.org

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Riley “caezar” E. @caezar.io · 07/03/2026

Phrack making the old days look so good! Call for Papers is up and the demoscene intro is brilliant! H/T to @richinseattle.bsky.social phrack.org

phrack.org

PHRACK CALL FOR PAPERS

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Spread the word! @phrack.org CFP with demoscene cracktro is live. Turn up the volume and enjoy the awesome stylings of @PiotrBania with some hopefully inspiring text from phrack staff :) phrack.org

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This may be the only offering of my fuzzing class at a conference this year and includes updates for targeting edge devices and arm64!

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OffensiveCon @offensivecon.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

🚨 In 2026, Richard Johnson - @richinseattle.bsky.social - returns to OffensiveCon with a training on "Advanced Fuzzing and Crash Analysis". More details here🔗https://buff.ly/I8w5EEO 🚀 Don't miss this chance to improve your skills - sign up now!

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sina @rejectionking.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

@richinseattle.bsky.social’s ai agents for cybersecurity course at RE//verse looks neat!

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Phrack Zine @phrack.org · 19/08/2025

Phrack turns 40. The digital drop is live. Download it. Archive it. Pass it on. 💾 www.phrack.org #phrackat40 #phrack72

Phrack 40th Anniversary ansi art by Harvest

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 21/08/2025

NEW: Earlier this month, two hackers published their findings in Phrack magazine after earlier breaking into the computer of a North Korean government hacker. Now, in speaking with @lorenzofb.bsky.social, the two hackers explain why they went public — even though their breach was probably illegal.

techcrunch.com

Hackers who exposed North Korean government hacker explain why they did it | TechCrunch

The two self-described hacktivists said they had access to the North Korean spy’s computer for around four months before deciding what they had found should be made public.

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Phrack Zine @phrack.org · 29/07/2025

Are you going to @defcon.bsky.social?? We'll be giving away 9500 print copies of Phrack! Come by main stage Sunday @ noon to see @vacci.ne @richinseattle.bsky.social and chompie talk hacker history! This will mark the first time Phrack staff appear together on DEF CON’s main stage.

defcon 33 main stage sunday aug 10 noon - flyer with sick ascii by x0 and aNACHRONiST

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Hexacon @hexacon.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

AI Agents for Cybersecurity by Richard Johnson (@richinseattle.bsky.social) www.hexacon.fr/trainer/john...

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dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

@richinseattle.bsky.social Richard Johnson, at the forefront of AI Security Research for years, is doing a new two day dojo course at CanSecWest2025_newtype, before 24/25 conference. Check out his presentation last year at CanSecWest "The DL on LLM Code Analysis " at secwest.net/2024-recordi...

secwest.net

Applied Deep Learning AI for Cybersecurity from April 22 to April 23/2025 — secwest.net - secure virtual engagement

This class is designed to introduce students to the most effective tools and techniques for applying cutting-edge deep learning–based artificial intelligence to cybersecurity tasks. By leveraging AI-d...

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Generated a few fuzz harnesses using new local models, OlympicCoder was best, fixing own bugs zero-shot & few hallucinations Open R1 OlympicCoder 32B DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B QwQ 32B Gemma-3-27b-it All 4bit quant. Coder was by bartowski, the rest were Unsloth dynamic quant

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My new APPLIED DEEP LEARNING AI FOR CYBERSECURITY training class is now available for sign ups at @reconmtl for 5500 CAD ($3838 USD) early bird pricing Full syllabus and registration here: recon.cx/2025/trainin...

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

My Applied Deep Learning AI for Cybersecurity training will be at RECON’s 20th anniversary con! I have a fuzzing harness gen section but will also cover model training/tuning & AI agents w/ applications in malware, RE, bug hunting, and web app pen-testing. There are also 3 other fuzzing trainings!

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Hexadecim8 @hexadecim8.com · 15/12/2024

Friends, FBI has responded to my FOIA request for Kevin Mitnick's files, and have made them available to everyone via the FBI public portal here: vault.fbi.gov/kevin-mitnic...

vault.fbi.gov

Kevin Mitnick Part 01 (Final)

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blacktop.bsky.social @blacktop.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Get your macOS 15.2 xnu CodeQL database here! 🎉 github.com/blacktop/dar...

github.com

Release v15.2 · blacktop/darwin-xnu-build

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Did anyone else get a blue box for Christmas?

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Phrack Zine @phrack.org · 16/12/2024

We updated our CFP for Phrack 72! The deadline is now April 1st 2025. Check the site for specifics on how to contribute, as well as some inspiration! We also posted a link to purchase physical copies of Phrack 71, and a donation link too. Enjoy! phrack.org

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

So I guess I'm going to be participating in the Solana hackathon with some LLM magic. I could not have predicted this at the beginning of the year.

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

News: Murderer was fond of a game where you take the role of an assassin. The game? Among Us. Never mind the cute cartoony aesthetic, this is a training ground for would-be killers! ROFL.

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I approve this message. A little digital hygiene will save your ass.

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dmnk @dmnk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Watch the recording of my #ekoparty talk "Advanced #Fuzzing with #LibAFL" here: youtu.be/FI7C37lz4Rg?... Thanks @fede-k.bsky.social for this amazing event!

youtu.be

Advanced Fuzzing With LibAFL - Dominik Maier - Ekoparty 2024

YouTube video by Ekoparty Security Conference

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I need some 2d sprite animations for a project. Dall-e knows what that means but is being stubborn. Anyone know a good resource besides fiverr?

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

China announced a ban on exports of Gallium, Germanium, and Antimony - natural resources used in semiconductors, solar cells, lead alloys for military etc. I found myself looking for what that might mean for our industries and found these annual natural resource reports from USGS

pubs.usgs.gov

Index of /pubs/periodicals/mcs2024

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Am I the only one who gets really annoyed about plagiarism on social media? It’s important to credit your sources no matter the medium.

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This thread seems to be copied from someone else on Twitter without credit but is a good summary. Original: x.com/omarsar0/sta...

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I can only imagine the cringe, ain’t nobody got time to read that pathetic shit.

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I love when cmake just works to build other peoples code, but it always takes an hour to debug when I find one that hasn’t been properly written. It’s almost always me brute forcing my way to build targets on windows. Fortunately my experience in fuzzing has fortified my patience for such things.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 27/11/2024

Nah include me in the dataset I go willingly my ass is gonna live forever through the machines. 100000 year SwiftOnSecurity chalice will clink against those of the future and settle scores past my death

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 21/11/2024

I'm launching a new website: sdk.blue - a list of all libraries/SDKs for building things on #ATProto, grouped by language 🙂 If I forgot anything important, or you have an ATProto/Bluesky library that you think would be a good fit there (or if I should remove anything), please send me a PR :) #atdev

sdk.blue

A curated list of libraries & SDKs for the Bluesky API and AT Protocol

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Dance with the Dead makes some pretty great gothic/baroque synth metal darkwave music to keep the juices flowing, all their albums are free on YT youtube.com/playlist?lis...

youtube.com

Driven to Madness - YouTube

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Polymorphic Log4J exploit that is a valid JSON REST API request (credit tw:@d0znpp)

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Blog comments section using AtProto (just comment on the thread from Bluesky to have it appear on blog comments). Very cool, though bots might make moderation a pain.

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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 22/11/2024

Illustration from TAP Magazine, 70s phone phreak publication.

Illustration of a person on a landline phone with the curls of the phone cord ensnaring various people and "MCI" with a line going to a can of soup under it.

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434b @434b.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

github.com/0xricksanche... just got more rusty, stable, (hopefully) easier to maintain and contribute to. Also, we have a bunch of new features like deterministic generation and fuzzing modes :)!

github.com

GitHub - 0xricksanchez/AFL_Runner: Scaling best-practice AFLPlusPlus fuzzing campaigns made easy

Scaling best-practice AFLPlusPlus fuzzing campaigns made easy - 0xricksanchez/AFL_Runner

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

AI research will be the true test of human exceptionalism and I think we will find our intelligence is not that much different from other biological or synthetic intelligences we will eventually build.

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

tired: "large language models are stochastic parrots" wired: mechanistic interpretability showing evidence of abstraction, generalization, motivation, and reasoning

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you've used Llama 3 you may have heard of RoPE or Rotatry Positional Encoding. Self-attention does not take the order of the sequence of tokens into account. RoPE enhances attention by adding that information. This blog does a deep dive on the developments in positional encoding that led to RoPE.

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Dario Amodi (Anthropic CEO) on forging your own path and hiring a great team lexfridman.com/dario-amodei... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugvH...

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