Tod Beardsley
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Tod Beardsley
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#InfoSec person, wire #protocol nerd, #vuln gazer. KT0DBK is my callsign.

I post more often on https://infosec.exchange/@todb. Bridged here as @todb2.hugesuccess.org . If you follow both I promise not to manually repost between them.
This is true brilliance.
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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We’re so proud of everyone who made this happen. Thank you for knocking on doors, making calls, writing postcards, working the polls, and most importantly voting. Let’s have another round tonight! 💙🇺🇸

And sorry for blowing up your newsfeed today, we promise it’s all for a good cause! 😉
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I stick with ChatGPT for code assist because I know it will fail, but fail in big obvious ways and then I can reason about what I want to actually ship.

I worry that if I use actually good code gen (like Claude) I’ll get lulled into not checking the work every time.
November 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Be ungovernable. 🕑🔥
November 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
in five years I wonder what ratio of slop to pop (short for populi as in vox populi and I just made this up now) will be. 5:1? 100:1?

one thing AI has on humans is scale after all
October 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
yeah not really tho
October 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Reposted by Tod Beardsley
I explained to my class week that despite all the panic about state actor capabilities:

-The biggest threat to electricity is squirrels
-Minecraft skids have the best DDoS capabilities
-No amount of disruption could ever beat misconfiguration, with DNS at the top of the list
October 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Reposted by Tod Beardsley
The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
KEV appears to be still KEVing and I just had a coordinated disclosure case move forward today so… yes. There are still good people doing good work at #CISA

…at least for now. Despite the terrorism being inflicted on them.
October 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM