madison taylor
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frigginGlorious ✅I like that mastodon won’t really let me doomscroll. I have a bunch of stuff to get done if I want to have a triumphant pilgrimage to #toorcamp and trip to see friends in Seattle.
I’ll be leaving on Friday for 9 days. It’ll be the longest I’ve spent away from home since I’ve owned a home!
John TI have not been keeping up, but had a great afternoon on Bandeleier (not Bandolier) National Monument, a visit with old friends in Durango, and now Utah-bound and having breakfast in Mancos (if you're a geologist, you have to stop and pay your shale tribute).
It's about the journey, not the destination, even if the destination is #ToorCamp
Ryan Castellucci (they/them) 
Since several people have asked, unfortunately I am not attending #toorcamp due to concerns that CBP may confiscate my US passport.
The Bone Collector@earthshine HOPE? I have never been, but it is on my short list. #toorcamp also seems like it would be a blast
J. B. CrawfordI will be at #ToorCamp this upcoming June! I will be speaking! Twice! To be honest I only expected them to accept one so I bet the other will be a little impromptu! It's gonna be awesome!
ティージェーグレェThat Claude $20,000 in LLM time burnt to find a bug in OpenBSD?
Kinda reminds me of that CCC talk on OpenBSD by that person who was like, super critical of OpenBSD, one of the security features (I don't remember which one and I really don't feel like re-watching that video on this slow WiFi just to be more precise with citations) he sort of hand waved away with something along the lines of: "maybe this is useful for some CTF competition, but not in the real world."
I mean, I dunno much about CTF competitions everywhere. At ToorCon 8, I sorta stood over jose's shoulder while he helped their CTF team get something to compile and for some reason, I ended up on that year's t-shirt, twice, as a result! ;) I also know some of the old DefCon CTF folks. obecian, of the Ghetto Hackers? Was an OpenBSD developer. Ghetto Hackers, having won CTFs in the past, I guess got to organize future CTFs or something?
OpenBSD was banned from CTFs IIRC, because it set the bar too high. In a Capture The Flag competition, you need hosts which are actually able to be exploited.
So, no, I don't think OpenBSD developers make security features, for CTF competitions, because at least, the last time I paid any attention to such things? OpenBSD was prohibited from being used in such things. That would be a lot of wasted development effort, for something from which no one would benefit.
As an aside, one of the two times (the first time I think? 2005?) that I ever ended up attending DefCon, I learned from Caezar how obecian got ingratiated into their group. Pretty hilarious story, but I would be retelling it with about two decades in between when I heard it and now, and doubtlessly would get some details incorrect. Not the thing to write about online so much as share in person anyway. ^_^
As an aside, didja see the Call For Papers for ToorCamp 2026?
https://talks.toorcon.net/toorcamp-2026/cfp
I dunno if I will have my life together enough to attend (it's late June, seems, dubious) but having attended ToorCamp in 2009 and having heard nothing but good things about it improving over the ensuring years? I am guessing it will be a good time!
#CTF #OpenBSD #ToorCamp #GhettoHackers
Kinda reminds me of that CCC talk on OpenBSD by that person who was like, super critical of OpenBSD, one of the security features (I don't remember which one and I really don't feel like re-watching that video on this slow WiFi just to be more precise with citations) he sort of hand waved away with something along the lines of: "maybe this is useful for some CTF competition, but not in the real world."
I mean, I dunno much about CTF competitions everywhere. At ToorCon 8, I sorta stood over jose's shoulder while he helped their CTF team get something to compile and for some reason, I ended up on that year's t-shirt, twice, as a result! ;) I also know some of the old DefCon CTF folks. obecian, of the Ghetto Hackers? Was an OpenBSD developer. Ghetto Hackers, having won CTFs in the past, I guess got to organize future CTFs or something?
OpenBSD was banned from CTFs IIRC, because it set the bar too high. In a Capture The Flag competition, you need hosts which are actually able to be exploited.
So, no, I don't think OpenBSD developers make security features, for CTF competitions, because at least, the last time I paid any attention to such things? OpenBSD was prohibited from being used in such things. That would be a lot of wasted development effort, for something from which no one would benefit.
As an aside, one of the two times (the first time I think? 2005?) that I ever ended up attending DefCon, I learned from Caezar how obecian got ingratiated into their group. Pretty hilarious story, but I would be retelling it with about two decades in between when I heard it and now, and doubtlessly would get some details incorrect. Not the thing to write about online so much as share in person anyway. ^_^
As an aside, didja see the Call For Papers for ToorCamp 2026?
https://talks.toorcon.net/toorcamp-2026/cfp
I dunno if I will have my life together enough to attend (it's late June, seems, dubious) but having attended ToorCamp in 2009 and having heard nothing but good things about it improving over the ensuring years? I am guessing it will be a good time!
#CTF #OpenBSD #ToorCamp #GhettoHackers
ShadytelRE: https://tacobelllabs.net/@shadytel/115738790079072536
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