Torry Crass

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Fmr State Chief Risk Officer (CISO); ShieldCon Co-Founder; BSidesCLT Board; National #Cyber Camp Program Director; BSidesLV SMRT; HFC; ShowerCon; author; presenter; polymath; astronerd; rand(musician); #RockChalk;
BSidesCLThttps://www.bsidesclt.org
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No travel? No problem! This year we are going Fully Online for the #TDI2026 Event! Get your ticket now at https://tdi.mobi/tickets
Happy #caturday just because.

We have started a project to re-encode all the past conferences that are no longer operating.

Generally we just focus on updates, but over time as more cons stop operating we are leaving bhind those in he older video format (HEVC) for the newer, streamable, AV1

As we re-encode the older cons we also generate English captions and embed them into the video files.

This project should take over 6 months of “spare” time, hopefully complete by #DefCon 34!
#InfoCon @InfoconDB

Comet NEOWISE rising over the Earth just before dawn as seen from the International Space Station.

You'll find no shortage of advice telling aspiring cybersecurity professionals to learn how to program—usually in Python. I humbly submit another language may serve you even better:

SQL.

Learning how relational data is queried, aggregated, and presented will translate to any number of processes.

Remember that time when during a flight, rather than surfing phones and all such digital things, people sometimes chatted?

It seems like such a rare commodity lately.

I’m guilty of this too… working or back to binge listening/watching something, the occasional read. All these things, plugged in.

I’ve had conversations with aspiring marine biologists, OG Bell Labs scientists, once in a while other cyber or IT nerds, countless business owners and professionals, even some folks whose prevailing identity was their religious affiliation. All really interesting conversations. Maybe that sort of thing keeps one in touch with the world…

In some ways, I miss it.

#travel #nerd #communication

This struck me as a marvelously community-oriented hacker thing to do. Find a problem, solve it. Recycle/repurpose. Leverage existing and underused networks. Brilliant. #maker #hacker #solarpunk
https://www.nhpr.org/2025-08-04/an-engineer-restores-pay-phones-for-free-public-use
An engineer restores pay phones for free public use

In a rural Vermont county, spotty cellphone coverage is the norm. But a local tinkerer is using old technology to help his community stay connected free of charge.

NHPR

I'm Closing shop for a few days for DEF CON after 7pm PT tonight at the https://www.missjackalope.store! I'll have a shop at the DEF CON vendor Arts and Entertainment area on Friday where you can pick up legendary merch! <3

#defcon #missjackalope #legendarymerch #Defcon33 #hackersummercamp

Reminder! Posting about DEF CON 33? Don’t forget to tag it with #DEFCON so it is more discoverable.
That time of year again… whew. #summercamp