It's 2024. People spend more time looking at screens than not-screens. People spend more time in limited wavelength artificial lighting than natural light. Rather than trying to describe "real life", we should just stick to RGB, as "real life" IS mostly just RGB now

My WarCon slides about Ivanti Avalanche are public!

I tried to do some mapping of the attack-surface, show the new auth mechanism and present some research ideas (things I didn't try).
It also shows my first-ever fuzzing and memory corruption experience😆

https://github.com/thezdi/presentations/blob/main/2024_WarCon/Avalanche_WarCon24.pdf

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It has turned out that the world just does not suffer significantly from the kind of problem that our research was originally intended to solve.

this is pretty titanic and sums up so much of what is wrong with software and computer science: just because a problem is theoretically interesting and/or rigorous and/or fun to work on *has no bearing whatsoever* on its usefulness in the real world. none. theyre unrelated. sometimes they overlap, cool, but they are not correlated.

you have to do a kind of analysis that engineers are not equipped to do. its a kind of design research that involves understanding your intended audience and their challenges. its deeply human and subjective and i was only exposed to it when working towards my MFA.

something about one of the titans of thought of computer science working for decades only to realize his formal systems -- while intellectually thorough and interesting! -- didnt solve anyone's problems. he just assumed they would. but he never asked. something about that to me feels like The Whole Story.

Google payed me a bugbounty for a bug I reported 8 years ago...

Safety in an Unsafe World - RustConf 2024 - How to move Rust beyond memory safety to guarantee freedom from any class of bugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba7fajt4l1M

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba7fajt4l1M

#programming #rustlang

Naming conventions, always surprising me

My team just released a paper detailing all the security capabilites in Windows Server 2025
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftsecurityandcompliance/windows-server-2025-security-book/4283981

Thank You to the guests who joined the opening of the Museum of Malware Art! The museum is now open to the public. For hours and more information, see https://MuseumofMalware.Art

Since Calvin and Hobbes are popular right now, please know that the entire archive is available online, searchable, for free. This includes ALL the strips, including some that didn't make it into the various anthologies:

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes

And if you are insistent on using alt text but are (like me) sometimes not motivated to type out the dialogue, there's even a 'transcript' button in the three-dot submenu. It's short on describing images, but it's thorough on the text.