Royce Williams

@tychotithonus@infosec.exchange
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Just doing my undue diligence.

ISP vet, password cracker (Team Hashcat), security demi-boffin, YubiKey stan, public-interest technologist, AK license plate geek. Husband to a philosopher, father to a llama fanatic. Views his.

Day job: Enterprise Security Architect for an Alaskan ISP.

Obsessed with security keys:
techsolvency.com/mfa/security-keys

My 2017 #BSidesLV talk "Password Cracking 201: Beyond the Basics":
youtube.com/watch?v=-uiMQGICeQY&t=20260s

Followed you out of the blue = probably stole you from follows of someone I respect.

Blocked inadvertently? Ask!

Am I following a dirtbag? Tell me!

Photo: White 50-ish man w/big forehead, short beard, & glasses, grinning in front of a display of Alaskan license plates.

Boosts not about security ... usually are.

Banner: 5 rows of security keys in a wall case.

#NonAIContent

#hashcat #Alaska #YubiKeys #LicensePlates

P.S. I hate advance-fee scammers with the heat of 400B suns

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Not "dehashed"!https://www.techsolvency.com/passwords/dehashing-reversing-decrypting/

Congratulations to our winners of the June 2025 Casual Jabbercracky!

1st place: Stealthsploit wielding a Bone-Chilling Chainsaw of Unhashed Passwords
2nd place: A8B394321E77E0F7 wielding a 20733 Year Old Curved Saber of Eternal Night
3rd place: AlMcWhiggin wielding a As Seen On TV Rubber Chicken

Thank you much to all of the competitors! See you next month!

#jabbercracky

Acts of Rebellion for the Middle-Aged

Hiring a plumber without vetting them across multiple Facebook community forums Starting a movie after 9 p.m. Texting without your glasses Eating a...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Whenever anyone messages me with "hey" in Slack/Teams, I intentionally wait at least fifteen minutes to ensure they're no longer looking at their message and then I just respond with the waving hand reaction emoji so it won’t push an actual notification so that, whenever they go back to check on their message, they'll see I "responded" and then maybe FINALLY ask their question.
Ever noticed your McDonald's order says it's ready on the screen long before it's actually ready? This is to improve the wait time stats of the store. It so widespread that we couldn't stop doing this or we'd be penalised for taking longer than others

Y'all, the reason you keep seeing these articles of "biggest data leak yet!" is just that leakers keep including all the past data leaks in their current one to make the numbers bigger. 99% of it is probably not even original data.

Media rags need to stop reporting on this as if it's some new credential leak Armageddon every week. It's not.

Baldwin said the commission used state funding to purchase telematic data gathered by Michelin Mobility Intelligence to show when and where drivers were speeding, braking, and talking and texting while driving.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/cellphone-data-help-state-patrol-catch-speeding-drivers-washington/281-2988e838-320f-4c2f-b2f9-89b17317bcfa

(Via: https://infosec.exchange/@Lee_Holmes/114716944101026797)

Before you continue to YouTube

Like Ed Harris' "creator / executive producer" character in the Truman Show, switching among all available cameras of a variety of sizes and placements ... except it's the NSA, sifting through all the cams on the phones / tablets / laptops / desktops scattered through my office

No direct username match, but I'd love to be following 'lifftchi' (Chris, last name unknown) on Mastodon.

i don't know who this person is -- clearly a current or former Google employee -- but I feel like we should hang out. eBay Item description game is 10/10

https://www.ebay.com/usr/lifftchi

"It's a willpower prosthesis, basically."

and

"It's a watch that's also a small USB flash drive, accessed via a small port on the side. I don't have the cable, so the watch could have anything on it. Anything at all. Imagine if it contains the key to a vast piratical hoard of Bitcoin -- I would certainly feel foolish about selling it."

lifftchi on eBay

Follow lifftchi on eBay. Buying, Selling, Collecting on eBay has never been more exciting!

From the National Bureau of Standards (precursor to NIST) NBS Technical Note 827, "Controlled Accessibility Workshop Report", May 1974, p3:
Microsoft Teams wants permission to DIAL EMERGENCY SERVICES? I hate customer meetings too but that is not a healthy coping mechanism