Eric Hutchins
@ehutchins.bsky.social
Started in infosec, co-authored the kill chain paper, dabbled in countering influence operations at Meta, and now back to infosec. Lover of command line, python, and rust.
Can’t believe Jason Bateman caused season-ending injuries to both Patrick Mahomes and Micah Parsons
December 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Can’t believe Jason Bateman caused season-ending injuries to both Patrick Mahomes and Micah Parsons
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so glad to see the dumbest fucking idea in my entire profession — which every serious practitioner has been sneering at since it was first raised while championed only by bloviating armchair operators — is coming to pass.
Trump Administration Turning to Private Firms in Cyber Offensive
The White House plans to make public its intention to enlist private companies in more aggressive efforts to go after criminal and state-sponsored hackers in a new national cyber strategy, a draft of ...
finance.yahoo.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
so glad to see the dumbest fucking idea in my entire profession — which every serious practitioner has been sneering at since it was first raised while championed only by bloviating armchair operators — is coming to pass.
ALPR has long been interest of mine, first state run cameras (police cruisers, red light cameras) and now privately operated ones (eg Home Depot parking lots). Cool project via HN: alpranalysis.com
ALPR Analysis - Flock Camera Coverage by County
Analyze ALPR/Flock camera coverage across US counties. See how many routes to essential services pass by surveillance cameras.
alpranalysis.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
ALPR has long been interest of mine, first state run cameras (police cruisers, red light cameras) and now privately operated ones (eg Home Depot parking lots). Cool project via HN: alpranalysis.com
I was obsessed with nuclear tests and this movie (Trinity and Beyond, narrated by William Shatner!) was a big factor. I remember downloading a data file of every atmospheric detonation from a gopher-hosted site and then printing it on the dot matrix printer
watching this 1995 documentary about nuclear weapons tests and while nuclear weapons are, in general, an insane weapon, nuclear artillery seems even more insane? what do you mean you want tactical nukes to use on the battlefield?
December 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I was obsessed with nuclear tests and this movie (Trinity and Beyond, narrated by William Shatner!) was a big factor. I remember downloading a data file of every atmospheric detonation from a gopher-hosted site and then printing it on the dot matrix printer
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Why is the soybean oil always PARTIALLY hydrogenated. Finish hydrogenating that shit, you lazy wockaflockas!
December 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Why is the soybean oil always PARTIALLY hydrogenated. Finish hydrogenating that shit, you lazy wockaflockas!
Anthropic, US Coast Guard, OpenAI, and Google on a conference panel
December 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Anthropic, US Coast Guard, OpenAI, and Google on a conference panel
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Give your team a secure way to do things or they’ll do them insecurely.
Make the secure way straightforward, efficient, documented, and then actually respond to questions, and folks will switch…people mostly want to do the right thing, we just make it hard sometimes
Make the secure way straightforward, efficient, documented, and then actually respond to questions, and folks will switch…people mostly want to do the right thing, we just make it hard sometimes
December 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Give your team a secure way to do things or they’ll do them insecurely.
Make the secure way straightforward, efficient, documented, and then actually respond to questions, and folks will switch…people mostly want to do the right thing, we just make it hard sometimes
Make the secure way straightforward, efficient, documented, and then actually respond to questions, and folks will switch…people mostly want to do the right thing, we just make it hard sometimes
@wylienewmark.bsky.social @adam35.bsky.social @frcolumba.bsky.social what do you recommend to read/listen/watch to learn about James Angleton?
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
@wylienewmark.bsky.social @adam35.bsky.social @frcolumba.bsky.social what do you recommend to read/listen/watch to learn about James Angleton?
Canticle of the Turning is such a banger
November 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Canticle of the Turning is such a banger
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
Creative approach to have the LLM write and run little bits of code to save context. As @bcantrill.bsky.social points out, this shows how much frontier AI needs CPU, too. “Fetching web page” and now this “orchestration code” mean a CPU is running, not a GPU
Creative approach to have the LLM write and run little bits of code to save context. As @bcantrill.bsky.social points out, this shows how much frontier AI needs CPU, too. “Fetching web page” and now this “orchestration code” mean a CPU is running, not a GPU
Introducing advanced tool use on the Claude Developer Platform
Claude can now discover, learn, and execute tools dynamically to enable agents that take action in the real world. Here’s how.
www.anthropic.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
Creative approach to have the LLM write and run little bits of code to save context. As @bcantrill.bsky.social points out, this shows how much frontier AI needs CPU, too. “Fetching web page” and now this “orchestration code” mean a CPU is running, not a GPU
Creative approach to have the LLM write and run little bits of code to save context. As @bcantrill.bsky.social points out, this shows how much frontier AI needs CPU, too. “Fetching web page” and now this “orchestration code” mean a CPU is running, not a GPU
Premiere naval OSINT, if you aren’t already following ⤵️
Finally left Twitter
Sorry to the 220k followers
Sorry to the 220k followers
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Premiere naval OSINT, if you aren’t already following ⤵️
Hakeem Olajuwon, sophisticated threat actor: “I am hitting him with the lateral movement”
I was reminded earlier today about when Kevin Garnett talked about Hakeem Olajuwon's trash talk, and it improved my day considerably. I share it now with you, in hopes that it will improve yours.
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Hakeem Olajuwon, sophisticated threat actor: “I am hitting him with the lateral movement”
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So far this morning, we’ve had an incredible kickoff with on attribution alphabet soup with the one and only @dmitri.silverado.org and then a fascinating meme-ful talk from @activemeasures.bsky.social and @wylienewmark.bsky.social on SVR cyber espionage and Russian analytic battlefields.
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
So far this morning, we’ve had an incredible kickoff with on attribution alphabet soup with the one and only @dmitri.silverado.org and then a fascinating meme-ful talk from @activemeasures.bsky.social and @wylienewmark.bsky.social on SVR cyber espionage and Russian analytic battlefields.
@activemeasures.bsky.social (which is a real llc!) and I assume @wylienewmark.bsky.social with a jaw dropping presentation. Best analysis of SVR vs GRU and history of the forgeries in 2016 leaks I’ve ever heard. #cyberwarcon
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@activemeasures.bsky.social (which is a real llc!) and I assume @wylienewmark.bsky.social with a jaw dropping presentation. Best analysis of SVR vs GRU and history of the forgeries in 2016 leaks I’ve ever heard. #cyberwarcon
Quis downdetect ipsos downdetectors?
you know it’s a bad Cloudflare outage when it even takes out down detector 😅
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Quis downdetect ipsos downdetectors?
Registering for BSides Pyongyang reminded me of the background investigator who thought they caught me fabricating something because I listed “Defence Workshop” on my travel reasons. “We noticed you misspelled defense…”
Anyway, good luck to all presenters!
Anyway, good luck to all presenters!
We are incredibly excited for this years agenda! #BSPY25 #BSidesPyongyang
Join us Tuesday 18 November 2025 on Twitch and YouTube
Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsides-pyongyang-tickets-1859223941859
Join us Tuesday 18 November 2025 on Twitch and YouTube
Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsides-pyongyang-tickets-1859223941859
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Registering for BSides Pyongyang reminded me of the background investigator who thought they caught me fabricating something because I listed “Defence Workshop” on my travel reasons. “We noticed you misspelled defense…”
Anyway, good luck to all presenters!
Anyway, good luck to all presenters!
“How is it that you made peace with that? The idea that invisibility was going to be the exchange for being omnipresent.”
If you need an infusion of joy today:
We installed a drum kit in the PTFO studio.
And convinced the GOAT — Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, age 83 — to come play 🐐⤵️ youtu.be/vhdw6lWCb9Y?...
We installed a drum kit in the PTFO studio.
And convinced the GOAT — Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, age 83 — to come play 🐐⤵️ youtu.be/vhdw6lWCb9Y?...
How Drummer Bernard Purdie Made the Soundtrack of Our Lives | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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November 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“How is it that you made peace with that? The idea that invisibility was going to be the exchange for being omnipresent.”
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Never assume your audience knows what acronyms stand for.
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Never assume your audience knows what acronyms stand for.
a) the modulated voice sounds just like their Aspiration source, so either same guy or really good modulation
b) i lol’ed that, yes of course, there’s a clippers angle
b) i lol’ed that, yes of course, there’s a clippers angle
October 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
a) the modulated voice sounds just like their Aspiration source, so either same guy or really good modulation
b) i lol’ed that, yes of course, there’s a clippers angle
b) i lol’ed that, yes of course, there’s a clippers angle
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We made Apache Parquet metadata parsing 3x-9x faster in the latest release of the Rust implementation
arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/10...
arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/10...
October 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
We made Apache Parquet metadata parsing 3x-9x faster in the latest release of the Rust implementation
arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/10...
arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/10...
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If you’ve been laid off from a cyber threat intel position, and you want a ticket to CYBERWARCON, please reach out.
October 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
If you’ve been laid off from a cyber threat intel position, and you want a ticket to CYBERWARCON, please reach out.
I’m fully on board with justfiles now. Also love this integration to expose recipes as mcp tools: github.com/millsaj/just...
daniel.feldroy.com/posts/2025-1...
daniel.feldroy.com/posts/2025-1...
uv+just for testing multiple Python versions
In the old days we relied on tox and nox to test a Python project against multiple Python versions, now we can lean on uv+just. For most projects this keeps our configuration straightforward and reduces dependencies.
daniel.feldroy.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I’m fully on board with justfiles now. Also love this integration to expose recipes as mcp tools: github.com/millsaj/just...
daniel.feldroy.com/posts/2025-1...
daniel.feldroy.com/posts/2025-1...
These Diwali snacks are rel to fyve
October 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
These Diwali snacks are rel to fyve
@swiftonsecurity.com were you involved in naming Microsoft’s Purview? learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purvie...
Learn about Microsoft Purview
Use this article to learn more about Microsoft Purview.
learn.microsoft.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
@swiftonsecurity.com were you involved in naming Microsoft’s Purview? learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purvie...