K. Reid Wightman  πŸŒ»  

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Tinker, Sailor, Biker, Hi

I do industrial security research for a living, mostly looking for #vulnerabilities in all of the wrong places. I like reverse engineering how PLC logic systems function under the hood, learning how safety instrument protocols work, and figuring out what malicious threat groups are doing and can do with access to such systems. A long time ago, I invented the term 'foreverday' to describe unfixable vulnerabilities.

Occasionally I analyze #industrial #malware, too, and on very rare occasions encounter threat groups that actually write malicious logic to do the vile things that I like to learn about.

I work for a little startup in the space called Dragos. In my spare time I enjoy long distance #bicycling, #sailing, and doting on our #pets.

I used to have an account on , however I haven't used it in a while and you should no longer assume that it's under my control.

Trying not to be one of the 80% that can be moved in either direction.

LocationDes Moines, IA, USA, Planet Earth, second spiral arm around Sagittarius A
Pronounshe/him or they/them
Security LevelCurrently clean on opsec
Everybody talks about the metric system and its superiority but why do freedom-fearing countries always talk about their car's total distance traveled as, for example, '60,000 kilometers', instead of the much more cool-sounding '60 megameters'. /s
then the compiler said "we don't take kindly to your datatypes around here.."

seeing a post by @TinyForests and all I could think to do was:

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Really I just want to make a "BlΓΆthar says 'no' to the Department of War and 'yes' to the Department of Gwar" meme. Only, I can't find any good photos...
I need some pics of Gwar. Specifically of BlΓΆthar the Berserker pointing 'yes' and holding up a hand in 'no' ala the Drake meme....
Sadness: the entire .zip TLD is blocked by zscaler, so I can't do anything professional with my toteslegitnotmalware.zip domain.

At this point, LLM-written think pieces make up about half of all long-form writing in my social media feed.

When I push back, I get two reactions. Authors say that it just helps them express themselves. AI promoters say "get used to it".

I don't think we should: it boils down to asymmetry. Our time here is limited. Social interaction on the internet breaks down if it takes ~0 effort to publish, but readers are still expected to use their own eyeballs and brains to engage.

So, I feel that we have three choices:

1) Refuse to engage with LLM writing *no matter if the article makes a good point or not*.

2) Embrace it and have my agent argue with your agent forever, for internet points.

3) Call it quits and move to an off-the-grid cabin in the woods.

This day in history is always a bit amusing to my family.
kind of funny closing windows and this is where i paused a show.
if i was Iran i’d announce it had been renamed β€œstrait of mexico” to really fuck him off