Internet Hacker. Founder of @vigilant_labs. Previously, co-founder of Azimuth Security (now L3Harris Trenchant)

Joined July 2008
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May 29
Face time with the team in a gorgeous setting
Just hopping on board the company pirate ship. Yarrr!
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not a bad return on a 1 month Claude code max sub 😏
Confirmed! @chompie1337 of IBM X-Force Offensive Research (XOR) used a single bug to exploit NV Container Toolkit, earning $50,000 and 5 Master of Pwn points. #Pwn2Own #P2OBerlin
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May 13
It's "Australian Fashion Week" apparently. @nikeaustralia and @garmin I'm available for sponsorship
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May 6
If you want to buy an athletics track (admittedly with floodlights etc), it costs more than you think. It's like 2 or 3 observatories.
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May 5
CFP is open!! Submit your cool talks about AI hacking/defense/core tech. Gonna be awesome!! ☺️ (re-boosting for other time zones)
The Unprompted.au CFP is officially OPEN! If you are doing cool stuff with AI in offense, defense, or working on core AI tech (from frontier models to open source LLMs), we'd love to hear from you! Submit here: unprompted.au/
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Tickets are also available for Unprompted.au. Ticket price is $880 AUD. There is also a small allocation of student tickets available for $110. Get in quick!
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May 5
CFP is open!! Submit your cool talks about AI hacking/defense/core tech. Gonna be awesome!! ☺️
The Unprompted.au CFP is officially OPEN! If you are doing cool stuff with AI in offense, defense, or working on core AI tech (from frontier models to open source LLMs), we'd love to hear from you! Submit here: unprompted.au/
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The Unprompted.au website is live and initial tickets offering is open!
Unprompted.au website is live and initial tickets are available: unprompted.au/
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Apr 28
Unprompted website is now live! Initial batch of tickets available
Unprompted.au website is live and initial tickets are available: unprompted.au/
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NEW! On the Three Buddy Problem we talked to Mark Dowd on the state of offensive research, the economics of the exploit market, the AI hype machine, daily stresses of running an offensive shop, and state of zero-day market: youtu.be/NEDlOKHG8nY?si=Aj0T…
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Apr 12
At a small q&a the other day: > q: "my kid is in high school and thinking about his career. With AI potentially threatening alot of jobs what you recommend be focus on?" > me: "Olympian" I think that was good advice
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Apr 9
Brief announcement: Launching Unprompted.au later this year in Sydney — a new conference focused on offensive and defensive security research using AI, and on how AI is reshaping the field. Sister conference to Unprompted. Follow @UnpromptedAU for updates.
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Apr 3
Me, waking up from 50 year cryosleep on my interstellar spaceship: *checks Garmin watch* Garmin: bad sleep, body battery 40% Oh cmon!!
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Mar 28
Why are they called "developers" and not "appletes"
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Mar 17
Tired: Old man yells at cloud Wired: Old man yells at Claude
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Feb 25
People often use AI to make themselves look better in photos. Instead, you should use AI to make worse photos of yourself (the "before" picture rather than "after"). Then you'd see them and be like "wow I look heaps better than this! I'm doing great!"
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Feb 24
Unexpected cool side effect of AI so far: the comeback of awesome TUIs
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Office upgrade proposal
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