So I was at #bsidessf and had a lovely time despite the profusion of AI horseshit.
Tho one of the AI vendors was handing out hot sauce as swag, so I figured, what the hell -
"Ingredients: habanero and naga jolokia chili peppers, water, salt, carrot, onion, lime, acetic and citric acids, cornstarch and xanthan gum, passion fruit, garlic"
- maybe it'll be ok?
.......yeah. No. It had a little burn on the back end, but way too vinegar forward, not enough highlighting of the pepper flavors, and honestly a huge disappointment.
But I suppose that's what you can expect out of "ai" swag.
The slides from my BSidesSF 2026 talk, "We Pwn the Night: Growing and Leading an 31337 Security Research Team" are now available 👍
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_zLH8vuHU1XOjEyk85WecQwSByDwxAmQ/view
That’s a wrap on #BSidesSF 2026: The musical! 🎭
We danced, we sang, and we enjoyed connecting with the insightful and highly skilled people in the security community.
Thanks for another great conference BSidesSF, and see you next year!
#BSidesSF 2026
Hunting Malicious IDE Extensions: Building Detection at Scale Across Developer Workstations
Vinod Tiwari, Story Protocol