Nick Selby 

@fuzztech@infosec.exchange
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EPSD. Co-host, EPSD Podcast; Tech Debt Burndown podcast. Board member, NCPTF. Advisory Board, Sightline Security. Former NYPD Intel. Retired TX popo. Bayern, DE / Bedford, TX
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Nick Selby 22h ago
Discernible1d ago

We've written extensively about how companies fumble bug bounty communications. But researchers have communication patterns that undermine their own effectiveness too -- and we're seeing the same three mistakes repeatedly sabotage otherwise brilliant technical work.

Check out this new post from CEO @Wednesday about the researcher side of disclosure 👇

https://discernibleinc.com/blog/3-counterproductive-communication-patterns-holding-back-security-researchers

3 Counterproductive Communication Patterns Holding Back Security Researchers  — Discernible Inc

Even technically brilliant security researchers can undermine their own bug bounty success through communication missteps that create adversarial relationships instead of productive partnerships. Here are three common patterns that damage disclosure outcomes and how to avoid them.

Discernible Inc
Nick Selby 23h ago
Chris McDonough ✅23h ago
To keep a secret from me, create a slack thread.
Nick Selby 2d ago
Weird Units3d ago
ounces per interrupt
Nick Selby 3d ago
Unintentional hilarity. When you click "Run the tech debt simulator. . .
Nick Selby 3d ago

The New Yorker: "Why Trump Supports Protesters in Tehran But Not in Minneapolis"

Oh, this is a toughy.

Nick Selby 3d ago
First time back on the bicycle since August due to the most frustrating series of illnesses and pain, and I must say I missed it dearly. Very excited to deliberately but cautiously work back up to fighting fit.
Nick Selby 4d ago
Jan Wildeboer 😷4d ago

After almost 9 months of observation, here's a "funny" correlation. Every time I post (and you good people like/boost) my blog post on "residential proxies" that really are just botnets for hire, some other folks decide to turn exactly these botnets on my mail server for a few days. So please, keep linking/boosting to make sure I can catch and block them all ;) The attached screenshots are around 25% from the list for today after I linked to my post in a reply yesterday.

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/

Nick Selby 4d ago
Natasha 🇪🇺4d ago

"The joy of not being sold anything"

📷 Photographer: unknown
Artist: Banksy

#StreetArt #Banksy

Nick Selby 4d ago

“One summer day, years ago, I chanced upon the diary of a German soldier from the early 1940s in a flea market in New York City.” - from an opinion piece by Shalom Auslander, NYT

I didn’t know that German soldiers had been in New York flea markets in 1940.

Hey NYT: maybe it would be better not to seek cost savings by cutting your editing staff.

Nick Selby 4d ago

I despair for my country.

“One resident, Patty O’Keefe, told the panel that she and another friend had been detained while following ICE vehicles, blowing whistles and honking. Agents smashed their car windows and unleashed pepper spray, she said. One of the agents said, “That is why this lesbian bitch is dead,” Ms. O’Keefe recalled, an apparent reference to Ms. Good.” -Jazmine Ulloa, NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/minnesota-democrats-ice-hearing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FFA.Yd1O.t8cTG-D54x2M&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Trump Backs Down on Insurrection Act as Democrats Take the Offensive

Officials denounced the Trump immigration crackdown in Minneapolis at an unofficial congressional hearing, while the president said he no longer saw a need to send in military forces.

The New York Times