Mark Dowd
Internet hacker
- The world in "Predator: Badlands" (Genna) is basically what Americans think Australia is like when I talk to them
- Is anyone going to ekoparty?
- I have a spare hexacon ticket if anyone wants it
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- Woke up today and chose violence. SMASHED my 5k PB by 28s. New score 18:17!!
- New 10km PB: 38:07! Official race time was 38:43 though (course was 10.2 km apparently). Beat my previous PB by over a minute!
- In all my years in cybersecurity, I don't recall ever attending a talk given by someone with a scouse accent, which is an outrage. I have a presentation coming up this week, maybe if I do some practice I can correct this
- Old school programming: I'm going to design a cool game but it's gotta fit in 64k New school programming: I'm going to design a cool game but it's gotta fit in 64k tokens
- Survivor Island - Vigilant style!
- Vibe coding is rather convenient, but I think one downside of allowing coders to fast track making stuff is missing out on some potentially interesting discoveries had you taken the time to learn the technology. Similar to fuzzing vs manual auditing
- Totally patted an alligator
- lol. Halvar's final slide
- DistrictCon kicking off with opening remarks from @winnona.bsky.social
- Going viral on Bluesky should be called "the butterfly effect"
- Happy birthday @runasand.bsky.social !
- People like to keep their friends close and their enemies closer. So I guess my advice is to observe the relative distance someone is keeping you at, and if it's closer than other people, you should destroy them.
- My ancestors originally came to Australia as convicts, eventually getting their freedom. Since then, we mostly haven't reoffended. The system works! Happy Australia Day!
- Reposted by Mark DowdWe're officially 1 month away from DistrictCon Year 0! Check out our agenda for talks, exploits, round tables, and more! www.districtcon.org/agenda
- DOGE off to a strong start improving govt efficiency. Already fired half of their own management staff. Lead by example eh
- In the business world, we should rename short term contracts to quests. It sounds way cooler. "What do you do for work?" "I'm currently on a quest to streamline logistics for a big importer"
- When you're too busy hacking to do exercise -- do both!
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- How is this real life
- This site is actually Russian. It's pronounced "blue-skee"
- Duo somehow has access to my internal monologue
- I think this estimate is low, Duo
- If there was a reboot of "The Wire", it'd just be these guys running Signal zero clicks all day
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- New Vigilant merch just dropped. Motorcycle club style
- Hey Google, DM me. Ill give you good price
- Obligatory company surfing lesson for staff :)
- It's crazy how there is some tech content here rather than 100% US politics/culture wars
- Our test fleets are so pretty
- Woah. Got my bsky account back. That took like 6 months or more
- I was airborne a few seconds. Turns out it’s tricky
- … I’m Iron Man
- New t-shirts arrived. We were going for subtle
- Post offensivecon fun!
- Vigilant’s Amat Cama speaking about baseband hacking at offensivecon
- For those going to offensivecon this week - come and say hi! (Also, my company vigilant labs is hiring vuln researchers - let us know if you’re interested. Email is contact@vigilantlabs.com)
- Met with the “Senior Astronaut Experience Manager” the other day to discuss my eventual flight on Virgin Galactic. It is dawning in me how utterly terrifying it is probably going to be!
