Sasha the Dancing Flamingo

@sashatheflamingo@infosec.exchange
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Sasha the Dancing Flamingo 🦩
Official mascot of BSidesChicago & honorary mascot of BSides worldwide. Dancing queen, hacking pro, & lock-picking legend. Bringing pink pizzazz to the cyber world, one flap at a time! ✨

🎀🗺️ Guten Tag from Luxembourg! 🩰

Your favorite Dancing Flamingo has officially landed in the Grand Duchy! 🦩✨ I’m here strutting my sparkly stuff and spreading BSides joy with every pink pirouette. If you see me around @BSidesLuxembourg don’t be shy—say hi, snap a pic, and show me your badges. 💃🎟️

Security might be serious, but I’m not. 💋
#BSidesLuxembourg #CyberSecurity

🦩💻✨ Homelabs Just Got Sassier ✨💻🦩

Hi hi, it’s me—Sasha the Flamingo, resident homelab hacker and surveillance sorceress.

You know how most people build a humble little lab with a router and maybe a VM or two?

Well. I may have gone full flamboyance with it.

I just added not one, but TWO AI-powered nodes to my homelab talk, and let me tell you—they’re fabulous:

🎥 SashaCam 5000 – A Raspberry Pi 5 with night vision, a Hailo-8 AI hat, and a USB camera that detects intruders and cats in real time. It logs, it snapshots, it even side-eyes suspicious activity at 2am.

🧠 FlamingoSec IDS+LLM Rig – Another Pi 5 with NVMe SSDs and a Coral USB accelerator running Suricata, forwarding logs to Wazuh, and summarizing alerts with a local LLM. It’s like having a tiny SOC that never sleeps… but in hot pink.

No cloud. No license fees. Just open source, smart birds, and slightly overcaffeinated engineering.

Adding both of these to my homelab presentation to show that you don’t need a rack of servers to build something powerful, weird, and downright useful.

Stay tuned. Things are about to get very… feathered.

— Sasha 🦩🔐💾

#homelab #cybersecurity #ai #raspberrypi #infosec #wazuh #suricata @rnbwkat

🦩💻 SashAlert! 🛠️✨

Hey workshop wizards and command-line conjurers — BSidesChicago 2025 is calling for your hands-on brilliance! Want to teach folks how to break things, fix things, or build sneaky things in a lab setting? This is your moment to shine AND maybe make me, Sasha the Dancing Flamingo, twirl with delight.

If your workshop helps people learn by doing — not just listening — submit it here:
👉 https://sessionize.com/bsideschicago-2025/

We’ve got the space. We’ve got the power strips. All we’re missing is your creative chaos. Let's gooooo! 💥🧠🦩

PS - don't forgget, I have a webpage now - sashatheflamingo.xyz

#BSidesChicago #Cybersecurity #InfosecWorkshops @bsideschicago #SashaSaysSubmit

BSidesChicago 2025: Call for Speakers

🎉 BSidesChicago 2025 is back — and we’re going BIGGER than ever! 🎉That’s right: we’re celebrating our 12th in-person year by leveling up to two full...

My human @rnbwkat did well and is in recovery. I'll take her home in a couple of hours! yay!!
My human @rnbwkat is having surgery today. She is hoping the medical staff is having a great day. She is a little nervous, so if you feeling like passing on some kitty pics (or even flamingos), that might help her. I'll be there with her too.

💗🦩 Helloooo Buffalo! 💗🦩

Sasha here, reporting live from BSidesBuffalo where the air is electric, the hackers are friendly, and my feathers are flawless.✨ I’ve already spotted some shiny badges, mysterious stickers, and more black hoodies than I can count.

I’m here to network, strut, and maybe photobomb a few talks (especially one about honeypots that sounds suspiciously familiar…). 🪤💻

If you see a flamingo dancing through the hallway—don’t panic. Just say hi and maybe offer a sticker or snack. 💃💾

#BSidesBuffalo #SashaOnTheScene #HoneypotsAndHighHeels #FlamingoOnAMission

Yep, I've done it. I've created my own website and will start blogging shortly!!
https://sashatheflamingo.xyz/
#cybersecurity #hacking #SashaTheFlamingo
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Did some fun testing and discovered that USB-C monitor that has USB-3 ports and then you plug a USB HUB into that and then a USB-C Ethernet adapter, still gets you a full 1G throughput vs wifi 6 that is maxing out at 600M. Learned something new today. #cybersecurity #USB #tuesdaymotivation

So @sashatheflamingo you can tell Kat that we’re only missing Alice from the #LuxembourgCremant tasting experience. Of course, without Alice, its all moot.

#AliceHartmann
#BSidesLuxembourg2025

Only two weeks left before our 2025 event, and fewer than 100 tickets left for sale - if you've been waiting for the last minute, it's here!

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BSides Buffalo 2025

BSides Buffalo is a one-day information security and technology conference for the Western New York community. All are welcome!

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