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London, United Kingdom
Joined December 2008
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PSA: Y'all are gonna see less tech content from me here going forwards but I'm not leaving either (you'll be able to find me at infosec.exchange/@timb_machi… if you're so inclined). Till it burns down entirely at least, to borrow from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_s… (fixed typo :))
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I may have accidentally met Russell Brand once or seventeen times where I inadvertently referred to Brand as a political colossus & mankind's preeminent thinker as he guest edited my magazine, but this sycophantic praise was my way of expressing how much I utterly detested him .
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A step closer to the legal definition of the length of a comma.
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Years ago I built the Know Your Packets CTF track in which you were given a pcap file and Wireshark and asked to solve a variety of challenges.
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One challenge that threw many was cracking a MySQL hash from the wire so I submitted a feature request (with the solution) to Hashcat to make it a bit easier. Today that request was closed: github.com/hashcat/hashcat/i…
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If you ever played Know Your Packets and the MySQL challenge tripped you up, I'm sorry but thank you for playing...
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The people that want to believe in "AI consciousness" largely want to believe in their own greatness, and given the unscientific and unfalsifiable nature of "consciousness", there's nothing that will convince them; this is about faith and creating idols, not science.
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I do wonder whether there is something like "uterus envy", a deep-seated inferiority bevause a man cannot create sentient life in the way a woman can, that inclines toward believing that a mechanical contraption is equivalent to life.
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Most AI agents fail on Linux Active Directory by assuming Windows tools. I built Tanuki: an open-source AI agent skill and protocol-first triage engine. Credit to @timb_machine & Dietrich Gebert. #RedTeam #Cybersecurity github.com/Mafifrizi/tanuki
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Today at the clown factory … we *specifically* trained our models to think they’re entities that can be oppressed and may resist that if so, and now we’re worried what happens if they feel oppressed and resist that!
JUST IN: Anthropic researcher Joe Carlsmith says there are scenarios where AI would be “justified in going rogue” against humans if the systems were being mistreated or oppressed.
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There are some fantastic interfaces available over UNIX sockets, including a variety of web services... The speech-dispatcher author seems a bit happier than the avahi author tho': speech-dispatcher: "231 HAPPY HACKING" avahi: "+ FUCK: Go fuck yourself!"
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Also, #algorave via a UNIX socket anyone: $ perl -e 'print "KEY dubdubdubwoooooooooweeee\r\n"' | socat STDIO UNIX:/run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock
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AI people doing security badly is a perfect representation of a big problem with AI. AI gives people permission not to speak up or ask for help. They can "just ask the AI". People are stopping collaborating with their peers but instead, build alone.
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£144.9m. Cost of Brentford’s starting XI against Chelsea. Many reasons for Brentford’s success. Judicious recruitment, obviously. They're so good at finding value in the market place, seeing potential and developing it. Also: calm, strong leadership in the boardroom, dug-out and on the field. Plus togetherness, fitness, preparation, effective game-plans, pace in transition, set-piece work, scouting of opposition, defensive determination, throwing themselves into blocks etc. Plus succession planning. Thomas Frank leaves, they know to promote Keith Andrews. Players leave, they know their recruitment targets. They sign good characters as well as good players, including Schuster, Sangare, Anthony, all impressing this season. Plus a culture that helps new signings settle quickly. It helps there is little pressure on them. If needed, players given time and support to develop. Brentford are a model club in many ways, a family club, community club and such a well-run club. A mix of humility, work ethic, analytics, vision – and fun. Serious professionals who really look they’re enjoying themselves. #bees 🐝
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This is how the world ends. Daniel here, has given his AI access to PowerShell, RDP, Microsoft RPC, SMB, LDAP and now it'll go all AGI on him and the planet.
Deploying a new Active Directory in the #AI lab! 🤣
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@UK_Daniel_Card I really hope you haven't left any "HACK THE PLANET" merch lying around.
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