Lucas C. WheelerDec 23
When I was a PhD student at University of Oregon there were often various people along the central street through campus trying to get one's attention: people with petitions, Mormons, etc. My first year, I went to have lunch with a senior student and the topic came up. He said: "Let me show you a trick" and grabbed a clipboard with some data sheets. As we walked down the street not a single one of the people bugged us. No one wanted to be bothered back by the clipboard guy. 😂 #LateralThinking
Jack GrahamNov 10
Guardian's lateral thinking puzzle today was really fun.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/10/can-you-solve-it-two-dead-at-the-drink-off-a-brilliant-new-lateral-thinking-puzzle
#lateralthinking
Can you solve it? Two dead at the drink-off – a brilliant new lateral thinking puzzle

Who poisoned who?

The Guardian
Bug Bounty ShortsNov 3
The 3 AM Breakthrough: How a CTF Side Quest Unlocked a Critical Bug Bounty
A veteran bug bounty hunter gets stuck against a hardened target using only basic payloads (`<script>alert(1)`, SQLi), hitting all standard defenses (WAFs, strict filters). After hours of failure, they pivot to a random CTF challenge involving HTML entity encoding, which sparks a breakthrough: **the target’s filters block raw malicious payloads but fail to sanitize encoded inputs**. Realization leads to exploiting this oversight by injecting HTML-encoded payloads (e.g., `&lt;script&gt;` for `<script>`) into vulnerable endpoints, bypassing input validation. This exposes a critical flaw (likely XSS or reflected injection) missed by others due to tunnel vision. Key lesson: lateral thinking and stepping away from complex problems often reveals overlooked attack vectors; **encoding tricks remain powerful against naive filters**. The article advocates for leveraging diverse security challenges (CTFs) to inspire new exploitation patterns. Impact: High-severity vulnerability bypass due to flawed input handling. #infosec #BugBounty #Cybersecurity #LateralThinking #WebSecurity
https://santhosh-adiga-u.medium.com/the-3-am-breakthrough-how-a-ctf-side-quest-unlocked-a-critical-bug-bounty-f548f98245fc?source=rss------bug_bounty_tips-5
The 3 AM Breakthrough: How a CTF Side Quest Unlocked a Critical Bug Bounty

The 3 AM Breakthrough: How a CTF Side Quest Unlocked a Critical Bug Bounty The Grind Midnight. My screen glowed with the familiar dance of failure. <script>alert(1)</script> – nothing. ' OR …

Medium
Deepak Kumar VasudevanOct 9

WRITE POEM IN FIVE LINES.

Student delivered literal compliance and conceptual art. Teacher demanded conformity and punished lateral thinking.

The system always rewards rigidity (0/5) and punishes wit (Bring your Parent).

This isn't grading; it's a lesson on how to crush the spirit.

#EducationSystem #LateralThinking #LexicalJugglery #AwesomeSmart

Paolo MelchiorreSep 8

Carson Gross is delivering the Keynote "Lateral Thinking with Weathered Technology (How The Nintendo Philosophy Applies to Modern Web Development)" at the DjangoCon US 2025 in Chicago 🇺🇸

CC @djangocon

#LateralThinking #Web #DjangoCon #DjangoConUS #DjangoConUS2025 #htmx #carsongross

Wendy PalmerJul 29

New fire shed in the locality over from ours. Fully decked out with kitchen, comfortable couches etc.

Meanwhile, bunch of crafting grandmas need somewhere to meet after losing their previous location.

A brigade member tells them to use the new fire shed, it’s empty most of the time anyway.

Win-win!

But no! Some (excuse me while I go full Australian) bloody drongo shows up and tells the grandmas to bugger off.

Brigade member says, not on, mate, and tells the district fire chief.

Who signs the grandmas up as auxiliary brigade members.

Problem solved! With a side of not-very-malicious compliance.

(Also, now the grandmas will come to the annual meeting and you better believe they’ll bring snacks: win-win-WIN)

#LateralThinking #GoodNews #CountryLife

Show threadJoe NoonanJul 1, 2025
Devoting Ireland's civil and military expertise and resources to answer the Court plea for help is something we can decide to do immediately. It cannot be blocked by the EU, in the way that certain sanctions on trade links are blocked atm. #Ireland #HereToHelp #TripleLock #LateralThinking
Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭Jan 29, 2025

As soon as I saw this Lateral video title from @tomscott, I instantly knew the answer. How about you?

https://youtu.be/iyt6cunJ8qc

#LateralThinking #TomScott

Anguilla's surprise windfall

YouTube
dierepublik 💀Dec 27, 2024
Oblique strategies
#ObliqueStrategies #LateralThinking #BrianEno #PeterSchmidt
TassieDiSep 15, 2024
The #tasmania govt in 2024 seems to be unaware of the simple river protection solution made famous by Edward de Bono decades ago. #LateralThinking
Trout fisherman finds an inland Tasmanian fish farm with no pollution limits - and few trout downstream | Tasmanian Inquirer
https://tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/trout-fisherman-finds-an-inland-tasmanian-fish-farm-with-no-pollution-limits-and-few-trout-downstream/
Trout fisherman finds an inland Tasmanian fish farm with no pollution limits - and few trout downstream | Tasmanian Inquirer

An independent water scientist has expressed concern at a lack of pollution limits in the environmental licence for a fish farm that has discharged its wastewater into the South Esk River in northern Tasmania for more than a decade. Water monitoring data submitted to the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) by…

Tasmanian Inquirer