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I've been thinking about #uncertainty from risk POV, & Doug Hubbard's concepts of calibrated estimators. My team does weekly calibrations for #estimating uncertainty. Listening to Choi-Greene talk about AI's certainty - confidently wrong, sometimes - I couldn't help but think that having calibrated, specific uncertainty on events, plans, projects, #technology would become MORE valuable in the future.

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Last year #BSidesSeattle, #llm / #genai / #agentic AI looked like hype that might blow over. This year acceptance, realistic / grounded direct topics.

Emily Choi-Greene's applying AI to Threat Modeling was a great kick off session. Best part was genAI's confidence - & the value of uncertainty.

#BSidesSeattle #BSidesSEA 2026 thoughts:

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Brian Myers' talk "Waking Up to AI: An Adventure in Governance" was fabulous. I heard him @ #BsidesPDX Oct on #British #Library #ransomware, so knew it'd be good.

The realistic, slow walk through for companies caught off guard by #AI and #LLMs - and the supply chain issues it brings up - reinforced the idea that weaknesses and strengths can be amplified by AI; leaving me wondering where are the brakes (so we can go fast).

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Excellent #BSidesSeattle #BSidesSEA 2026. Unpacking a few thoughts:

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Super enjoyed "The Security Policy Rollout Survival Guide" by Maya Kaczorowski. Great talk! Wish it had been a 1 hour. She may mean something else but this is my take home:
1) who set the policy is who should enforce
2) a pilot project is actually a #decision, not #research. Treat it as such
These may not be #hot #new #information to others, but it really resonated with me. Thank you Maya! Great talk.

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Haven't been on LinkedIn for a while, but #BsidesSeattle this weekend had a few people wanting to connect, so I went ahead and did so. Went on there today, and ...

...Holy hell that place is just a mess of things I don't really care about anymore. I remember the golden 5 minutes where it was an interesting intersection of what people were working on and sort of quasi-professional bloggy type material.

I tried fiddling with settings to see if I could make my feed more tolerable, but there's no "turn it into the fediverse" option. The only fun thing on it was people posting about Bsides from this weekend. 🤣

I named myself the unofficial #bsidesseattle librarian this year and brought the digital side of it, spent time in there gently hosting, refilling books, and having delightful conversations with people. It was exactly the space I needed for a conference. I offered to be official next year and was starting to think of it as “the quieter village”.

Pondering ideas:
- A book club discussion, with a thematic book announced with the conference theme
- Evening programming to go with the louder entertainment - possibly herbal teas and conversation prompt cards
- quiet reading hour? Though that might require a lot of signage and enforcement, which doesn’t match the vibe

Kind of a funny thing though - I wouldn’t want to over-program it, because part of its charm was the fluctuating between “lively but cozy coffee shop” and “crypt quiet” throughout the day.

Huge shoutout to @Wham for the space and working with Ada’s to stock it with awesome tech, queer, and subversive books.

I have been remiss in having forgotten to mention that Da Boss, Daniel Schwalbe, will be speaking tomorrow at BSides Seattle! Go see him work his magic.

Bonus points if you ask him what the "F" in "DFS" stands for.

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If you’re at #bsidesseattle Friday or Saturday, check out the lovely (and quiet!) free library full of a delightful selection of Ada’s bookstore books. There’s fiction, how to, and security classics there. Find a book you love? Take it with you for free!

There is ALSO a digital #WeeFreeCommunityLibrary chock full of CC and public domain comics, right to repair content, security texts and zines, and mental health support. All these can be downloaded for free.

Find the library in the small room across from the tshirt desk. It’s a soothing and calm room, even if you’re not a reader.

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