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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 12/09/2026

Listening to non-technical people get frustrated about LLM output is like listening to my in-laws insist that their iPhone switched to Korean all by itself.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 04/09/2026

Many non-technical people are blindly trusting LLM output the same way older generations blindly trusted "the Google" and cable news.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 28/08/2026

Despite being a "verified defender" with Daybreak, OpenAI still rejected me when I appealed a warning they sent for generating a simple shellcode loader for research. I verified my identity and the legitimacy of my consulting LLC that I've run for two years now, and apparently that doesn't matter?

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 26/08/2026

Don't make me coin "slopreneur"

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 04/08/2026

Staking out how I do and do not use LLMs for good. Just in case anyone was wondering if I'm interested in handing over my humanity for expediency. ryanbasden.com/ai.html

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AI - Ryan Basden

Where Ryan Basden uses large language models, where he refuses to, and the tools he’s built to keep the line clear.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 01/08/2026

“Hey, I could tell by your face that you were kind of frustrated on that call” Bro my facial expressions are humanitarian aid compared to what I was actually thinking

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nico_n_art (looking for work) @nico-n-art.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If you want you can also support me on Ko-fi, I will try to post there more often. I just posted a work in progress of the illustration I've been working on this week. It's pretty metal and I'm sure you will love it! ko-fi.com/post/WIP-Le-...

Detail of a black and white pixel art illustration showing part of a face and an eye looking upward

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 26/05/2026

Going to start using "load-bearing" instead of "cool" and "sick" in regular conversation

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 25/05/2026

LLMs don't have to be able to replace red teams. AI companies just have to convince enough of the market that they can.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 28/04/2026

Claude API issues are the new us-east-1 outages.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 17/04/2026

Went to a turtle hospital in Key West today. They drown if they eat plastics that ruin their buoyancy. They develop tumors as we contaminate the water. They get hit by boats/jet skis and become permanently paralyzed. Sometimes it's hard to keep caring about security.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 28/03/2026

Marketing designs at RSAC were wild this year

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 23/03/2026

Sometimes I wonder if I could ever go back to just being a good people manager. I miss leading and developing teams, but I will never miss the mountain of billable work that usually comes with consulting.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 20/03/2026

The whole TryHackMe/NoScope thing got me thinking about what training was like when I was a young lad and the changes I've seen in how people learn. 🧵

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 17/03/2026

Purple team exercises are my favorite work when they go well. Few things burn me out harder than when they're set up to fail and I have to run them anyway. I wrote up the specific failure modes I've seen repeatedly, on both the client side and the consulting side. 🧵

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 02/03/2026

I really love breaking into buildings, but when clients have asked me about the specific threat model, I haven't had a great answer. Here's my attempt at figuring it out. empiricsecurity.substack.com/p/oceans-ele...

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Ocean's Eleven Heists In a Louvre Four World

Are physical security assessments a fun novelty? Or are fewer businesses taking them as seriously as they should?

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 01/03/2026

Oh, this? Yeah, I only use AI on the command line. I’m a bit of a power user. ChatGPT? I’ve heard of it, but Claude just sort of gets me, you know? Plus it understands my Vim commands, so the mental load is almost nonexistent. Vim? Yeah, hard to explain, you might be better off with the web UI.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 21/02/2026

Spicy blog drafts I've had in the hopper for a long time: - How to Fool Your PCI Auditor and Get That Bag - Continuous Pentesting or Just Continuous Vulnerability Management? - Your Executives Make Phishing Easier For Me and My Friends - A Song of Supply Chains and Drive-By 0-days

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 14/02/2026

If @bsky.app could add TOTP as an MFA option instead of emailing me a code that is not only case sensitive but doesn't use a font that clearly differentiates between uppercase O and the number 0, that would be fantastic.

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Empiric Security @empiricsecurity.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

We’ve all seen it: the "compliance-first" mindset that checks every box while leaving the front door wide open, but out of scope. If you’re tired of the theatre and actually want to move the needle, give this a read. empiricsecurity.substack.com/p/how-shadow...

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How Shadow Incentives Harm Real Security

Despite the millions upon millions of dollars thrown at penetration testing ever year, big data breaches are still as common as ever.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 14/01/2026

One more stressful event away from making disappearing into the woods part of my personality

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 09/01/2026

Have you guys checked out your Kroger 2025 Wrapped yet

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 20/12/2025

Some of the best hackers I know still manage to overestimate their expertise in completely unrelated fields, medical science being a big one. I can go from soaking in some arcane tech wisdom to fielding batshit takes about vaccines in the span of a few seconds with some of you guys. Why?

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 03/12/2025

Every time I go on a podcast as a guest, I spend the next 24 hours trying to remember if I said anything painfully stupid that will tank my career.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 01/11/2025

Does Bluesky really still not support TOTP? Can I stop having to copy a code from my email and remove the backticks that it includes?

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vx-underground (automated mirror) @vxundergroundre.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

STOP CALLING IT VISHING AND SMISHING YOU SOUND LIKE A FUCKING TODDLER BABBLING NONSENSE ITS PHISHING OR SOCIAL ENGINEERING REEEEEEEEE

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 19/08/2025

Watch out for people who take your personal growth personally.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 13/08/2025

Working on a conference talk

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 07/08/2025

"nano is for babies" - crontab

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 23/07/2025

It's a personal conviction of mine that, for how much of the tech industry operates out of Atlanta, there is a serious lack of quality security conferences and communities. But I know some people trying to change that.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 23/07/2025

Most fun I've ever had speaking at a conference, hands down. If you were there at @wildwesthackinfest.bsky.social , you were the best audience a guy could hope for. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrtp...

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Solving Dumb Hacker Problems With Nix | Ryan Basden

YouTube video by Wild West Hackin' Fest

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 03/07/2025

I would simply write memory-safe code

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 16/06/2025

Laptop numpads are psychotic, why do I have to overextend my right shoulder just to type

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 11/06/2025

Finally getting around to watching Chernobyl and all I see is a bunch of MBAs making fun of technical experts and high-fiving

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 06/06/2025

If there's anything I can count on BlueSky for, it's showing me all of the stuff I've painstakingly worked to not have to look at on Twitter.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 29/05/2025

"In addition, ChatGPT doesn’t just itself fail to recognize the difference between fact and fiction, it presents these answers to people who are themselves unable to discern the difference." lmnt.me/blog/the-dys...

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The Dystopian Dream Team

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 20/05/2025

A little tired of getting random junk in conference "swag bags", can I opt out? I don't need fifty branded drawstring bags that I'm just going to donate and might eventually end up in a landfill.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 19/05/2025

iPad babies can be any age.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 21/04/2025

Hey Gemini, which spreadsheet does this company store passwords in

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 04/04/2025

imagine still using OOP when you could vibe-code functions and structs

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 28/03/2025

Some of my favorites from Zion National Park. Taken with Kodak Portra 400.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 25/03/2025

I wish Signal would find a way to make their service censorship-resistant. Can't help but feel like completely abandoning countries that demand encryption backdoors is the wrong move. Better to refuse AND make service use as hard to restrict as possible.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 18/03/2025

Mudge is the Obi-wan Kenobi that the industry needs right now. Stop what you're doing and read this blog.

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 18/03/2025

Got my personal site running (again) in its new forever location. Any tech writing I do that isn't explicitly meant to be customer facing will be there, including but not limited to: - Rambunctious research - Pontification - Snide commentary - Corporate criticism

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Ryan Basden @ryanbasden.com · 15/03/2025

Use social engineering to get your competetive friends back to their gym routine and PR #wehackhealth

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