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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 1d

I just need to monitor these two bytes at 0x...c8.

10PM brain: Sure. Query "0x...c8 to 0x...c10"

Computer go brrrrr for an hour 🫠

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 1d

The Binary Ninja 5.2 dev release is showing some amazing work with their new Time Travel Debugging (TTD) interface. This makes a huge impact on analysis!

(and fits well on my UW monitor)

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 5d

Debugging is a long journey
Plan random rest breaks along the way

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 8d

A gorgeous start to GrrCon

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · 14d

#flareon12 reduced to four weeks, meanwhile the first week I'm preparing a talk and work traveling ...

I should tack on days and sequester myself in a hotel room with room service the entire time

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Sep 2

Rewriting Noriben to be class-based Python, now that I'm learning it properly.

And playing with process tree output ...

As I do all my best work from hotel rooms.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Aug 30

When somewhere along the line a dash in your text was converted to an emdash and now you're afraid everyone will think AI wrote it.

Back in my day we accepted grammar fixes without question ...

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Aug 25

10 years ago: "This code is too simple. No helper functions, no documentation. You must have copied it from StackOverflow."

Today: "This code is too complex. Too many helper functions and solid documentation. You must have used AI."

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Aug 21

For the "did we run into each other at Vegas?" questions, this is my standard dress code for all events 😂

Too bad there's not more room for stickers, being strategic about which to use.

You'll also find me with the cane at future events so I'm easy to spot.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Aug 15

Not online, yet. Maybe soon. I may try to give the sticker one again in a longer format that it really needs

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Aug 14

By a long shot 😅

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Aug 14

And had an awesome time being back at @bsideslv.org and DEF CON, for the inaugural Malware Village!

You wouldn't guess which of these two talks was the most stressful to prepare 😂

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Aug 14

Home from Vegas and recovering from sickness. But left with a lot of memories. It's been years since I was properly out and I really missed seeing all my friends.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Aug 7

And cue the random taxi drivers with "DEF CON? So, my phone and all my accounts are hacked. How can I tell if it's a foreign government?" questions

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The Officially Unofficial DEF CON Sticker Swap @dcstickerswap.bsky.social · Jul 29

The Officially Unofficial Sticker Swap will be held Saturday, August 9th from 2pm to 4pm in the HallwayCon Lounge area on Level 2.

Spread the word…

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Aug 6

My love to the @bsideslv.org team.
Being a ginger, and not a day walker, there was a real risk of me dying from the sun. So they gifted me a safety package with umbrella 😂

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Aug 4

Firing up the "aggressively working out of hotel room" playlist

Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Aug 1

Huge admiration to custom badges and CTF made for the Sublime Security company retreat. Amazing work!

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Jul 31

Exhaustion: When you spend two hours trying everything to inject a DLL into a process to drop data, in every which way possible, and then realize you're working on the wrong file.

Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Jul 30

You too! It's been years since we sat down. Would be good to catch up.

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Jul 29

Vegas will be fun and pleasantly crushing next week. Eight days, four events, and giving two talks

For friends I haven't seen since pre-COVID, I'm now sober (still drink at bars) and walk with a limp but am still the same ginger you know and love ... now with long curly hair!

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Jul 28

Slide deck for 20-min talk is almost complete...

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Jul 27

As someone who over-relies on emojis to ensure wrong tone isn't sent, that an automatic Windows update killed emoji panel is frustrating

Microsoft admitted the bug then put fix in an optional update (image rolleyes since emoji is broken)
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

So, go update

Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Jul 26

srsly tho, I have two talks to write and have spent over 10 hours of just image editing

otoh it's been since pre-covid that I've done a proper talk so am not cutting corners

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Brian Baskin @bbaskin.bsky.social · Jul 26

Making my life difficult by committing to a theme for a presentation by converting all images into 'stickers'

Dozens and dozens of them.

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