Daniel Cuthbert
@dcuthbert.bsky.social
Ageing hacker, long time documentary photographer. Black Hat Review board. Now sitting on numerous government cyber security boards so I guess that means I’ve grown up right?
I like watches
I like photography
I like light meters
I like electronics
I like
Hmmmm, oh hello
www.increment-labs.com
I like photography
I like light meters
I like electronics
I like
Hmmmm, oh hello
www.increment-labs.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:25 PM
I like watches
I like photography
I like light meters
I like electronics
I like
Hmmmm, oh hello
www.increment-labs.com
I like photography
I like light meters
I like electronics
I like
Hmmmm, oh hello
www.increment-labs.com
UNIX nerds rejoice, Uni of Utah managed to find version 4 of UNIX
youtu.be/m-3RJaKcw_4?...
Why is this cool? Well this is the 1st version written in C. Had a letter from Ken Thompson too, we thought version 5 was the oldest surviving copy
Oh and it’s 2mb in size!
youtu.be/m-3RJaKcw_4?...
Why is this cool? Well this is the 1st version written in C. Had a letter from Ken Thompson too, we thought version 5 was the oldest surviving copy
Oh and it’s 2mb in size!
UNIX v4 program found cleaning out an office at the University of Utah
YouTube video by KUTV 2 News Salt Lake City
youtu.be
January 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
UNIX nerds rejoice, Uni of Utah managed to find version 4 of UNIX
youtu.be/m-3RJaKcw_4?...
Why is this cool? Well this is the 1st version written in C. Had a letter from Ken Thompson too, we thought version 5 was the oldest surviving copy
Oh and it’s 2mb in size!
youtu.be/m-3RJaKcw_4?...
Why is this cool? Well this is the 1st version written in C. Had a letter from Ken Thompson too, we thought version 5 was the oldest surviving copy
Oh and it’s 2mb in size!
Great lightning talk at CCC on reverse engineering an iPod nano on a shoestring budget.
Delayering PCBs using sandpaper and patience. Oh and decapping the SoC too, coz why not?
youtu.be/FKHL1yyOKJc?...
Delayering PCBs using sandpaper and patience. Oh and decapping the SoC too, coz why not?
youtu.be/FKHL1yyOKJc?...
39C3 - iPod Nano Reverse Engineering
YouTube video by hug0
youtu.be
January 6, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Great lightning talk at CCC on reverse engineering an iPod nano on a shoestring budget.
Delayering PCBs using sandpaper and patience. Oh and decapping the SoC too, coz why not?
youtu.be/FKHL1yyOKJc?...
Delayering PCBs using sandpaper and patience. Oh and decapping the SoC too, coz why not?
youtu.be/FKHL1yyOKJc?...
If you are a hardware nerd like me who fancies a good Sunday rabbit hole with a 25-year old CNC machine and dodgy circuit boards…
Well my friend, look no further
youtu.be/BuQZeiAugp4?...
And no, it is totally a lie that I’m currently looking on Facebook marketplace for CNC’s. Nope totes wrong
Well my friend, look no further
youtu.be/BuQZeiAugp4?...
And no, it is totally a lie that I’m currently looking on Facebook marketplace for CNC’s. Nope totes wrong
Bought a Broken CNC Lathe They Don’t Want Me to Fix
YouTube video by Watch Wes Work
youtu.be
January 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
If you are a hardware nerd like me who fancies a good Sunday rabbit hole with a 25-year old CNC machine and dodgy circuit boards…
Well my friend, look no further
youtu.be/BuQZeiAugp4?...
And no, it is totally a lie that I’m currently looking on Facebook marketplace for CNC’s. Nope totes wrong
Well my friend, look no further
youtu.be/BuQZeiAugp4?...
And no, it is totally a lie that I’m currently looking on Facebook marketplace for CNC’s. Nope totes wrong
So so glad Digging the Greats is touching on the comeback of physical music and media: youtu.be/o9pclYwRQag?...
The Great Cassette Comeback is Weirder Than You Think (Mixtape Ep 1)
YouTube video by Digging The Greats
youtu.be
January 2, 2026 at 4:04 PM
So so glad Digging the Greats is touching on the comeback of physical music and media: youtu.be/o9pclYwRQag?...
Anyone who’s tried to capture FaceID and the scanning that happens on your iPhone, will resonate with this video
Great to see Associated Press do this piece on capturing surveillance tech
youtu.be/D1tyEUq2u-E?...
Great to see Associated Press do this piece on capturing surveillance tech
youtu.be/D1tyEUq2u-E?...
How AP photographers capture infrared technology used in surveillance
YouTube video by Associated Press
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Anyone who’s tried to capture FaceID and the scanning that happens on your iPhone, will resonate with this video
Great to see Associated Press do this piece on capturing surveillance tech
youtu.be/D1tyEUq2u-E?...
Great to see Associated Press do this piece on capturing surveillance tech
youtu.be/D1tyEUq2u-E?...
All tech is political and we are involved if you like it or not
The Dark Tangent
The Dark Tangent
December 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
All tech is political and we are involved if you like it or not
The Dark Tangent
The Dark Tangent
Crypto, queens and taking notes on a massive criminal conspiracy. Smashing Zhimin Qian’s 5 Billion empire
Good insights into money laundering at this scale
youtu.be/EymtOOJmRpo?...
Good insights into money laundering at this scale
youtu.be/EymtOOJmRpo?...
Crypto Queen | Dismantling a £5 Billion Bitcoin Empire
YouTube video by Metropolitan Police
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Crypto, queens and taking notes on a massive criminal conspiracy. Smashing Zhimin Qian’s 5 Billion empire
Good insights into money laundering at this scale
youtu.be/EymtOOJmRpo?...
Good insights into money laundering at this scale
youtu.be/EymtOOJmRpo?...
@darkreading.bsky.social and Arielle Waldman on what we’ve spent the last few months on: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
New Raptor Framework Uses Agentic AI to Create Patches
Researchers used prompts and large language models to develop an open source AI framework capable of generating both vulnerability exploits and patches.
www.darkreading.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
@darkreading.bsky.social and Arielle Waldman on what we’ve spent the last few months on: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
When you get a once in a lifetime opportunity, drive the movie cars of your childhood
November 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
When you get a once in a lifetime opportunity, drive the movie cars of your childhood
Reposted by Daniel Cuthbert
movie: we can't trace their payload, it's behind two layers of base64!
computer knowers: *groan*
reality:
computer knowers: *groan*
reality:
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
movie: we can't trace their payload, it's behind two layers of base64!
computer knowers: *groan*
reality:
computer knowers: *groan*
reality:
Looking at how twitter has utterly screwed up the forced U2F migration, tells me they have no engineers left who know what the hell they are doing.
Such a huge abortion of note
Such a huge abortion of note
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Looking at how twitter has utterly screwed up the forced U2F migration, tells me they have no engineers left who know what the hell they are doing.
Such a huge abortion of note
Such a huge abortion of note
You know it’s gonna be a proper nerd Friday night when Ringway Manchester has a video on MoD NATO secure Myra blue (NATO secret voice & data) and Myra red (UK secret voice & data)
With PTT too and that classic dymo taped “secret” label so you know it’s secure right?
youtu.be/zRNxysDCRrM?...
With PTT too and that classic dymo taped “secret” label so you know it’s secure right?
youtu.be/zRNxysDCRrM?...
I Got Some Highly Secret Secure Military Telephones!
YouTube video by Ringway Manchester
youtu.be
October 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
You know it’s gonna be a proper nerd Friday night when Ringway Manchester has a video on MoD NATO secure Myra blue (NATO secret voice & data) and Myra red (UK secret voice & data)
With PTT too and that classic dymo taped “secret” label so you know it’s secure right?
youtu.be/zRNxysDCRrM?...
With PTT too and that classic dymo taped “secret” label so you know it’s secure right?
youtu.be/zRNxysDCRrM?...
Reposted by Daniel Cuthbert
Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher - lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/squisher/
Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher 3000
If it clucks like a duck...
lcamtuf.coredump.cx
October 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher - lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/squisher/
Where does one begin…
A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.
www.404media.co/man-stores-a...
www.404media.co/man-stores-a...
Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets
A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...
www.404media.co
October 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Where does one begin…
Reposted by Daniel Cuthbert
Our annual review is out covering technical highlights such as
- Engineering resilience against critical loss
- Passkeys
- The future of digital identity
- Post quantum crypt transition
- Our Initiate r&d program with industry
- Radical transparency in technology
.. and more
- Engineering resilience against critical loss
- Passkeys
- The future of digital identity
- Post quantum crypt transition
- Our Initiate r&d program with industry
- Radical transparency in technology
.. and more
It’s time to act
Today we’ve published our 2025 Annual Review, revealing that cyber threats facing the UK are accelerating rapidly. We must take action.
Today we’ve published our 2025 Annual Review, revealing that cyber threats facing the UK are accelerating rapidly. We must take action.
October 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Our annual review is out covering technical highlights such as
- Engineering resilience against critical loss
- Passkeys
- The future of digital identity
- Post quantum crypt transition
- Our Initiate r&d program with industry
- Radical transparency in technology
.. and more
- Engineering resilience against critical loss
- Passkeys
- The future of digital identity
- Post quantum crypt transition
- Our Initiate r&d program with industry
- Radical transparency in technology
.. and more
It’s not often I’m lost for words, but…
October 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It’s not often I’m lost for words, but…
Yes, it has never been easier to make a web scraper and yes most websites still cannot handle this, but as the thirst for more data continues, this lawsuit is going to be one to watch
I’ve seen so many posts saying “make a scraper, you can earn so much cash..” in recent times and whooah boy
I’ve seen so many posts saying “make a scraper, you can earn so much cash..” in recent times and whooah boy
October 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Yes, it has never been easier to make a web scraper and yes most websites still cannot handle this, but as the thirst for more data continues, this lawsuit is going to be one to watch
I’ve seen so many posts saying “make a scraper, you can earn so much cash..” in recent times and whooah boy
I’ve seen so many posts saying “make a scraper, you can earn so much cash..” in recent times and whooah boy
Great news for Signal Protocol signal.org/blog/spqr/
Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR). This new ratchet enhances the Signal Protocol’s...
signal.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Great news for Signal Protocol signal.org/blog/spqr/
Geopolitics aside, the technical mess that implementing geographical backdoors that dont weaken the overall system, gives me the shivers
www.ft.com/content/d101...
To be a fly on the wall when the advisors try and explain how this would work. So there’s Alice and bob and then Peter, in the corner
www.ft.com/content/d101...
To be a fly on the wall when the advisors try and explain how this would work. So there’s Alice and bob and then Peter, in the corner
UK makes new attempt to access Apple cloud data
Order issued in September comes after Trump administration said London had backed down in fight over encryption
www.ft.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Geopolitics aside, the technical mess that implementing geographical backdoors that dont weaken the overall system, gives me the shivers
www.ft.com/content/d101...
To be a fly on the wall when the advisors try and explain how this would work. So there’s Alice and bob and then Peter, in the corner
www.ft.com/content/d101...
To be a fly on the wall when the advisors try and explain how this would work. So there’s Alice and bob and then Peter, in the corner
It has been about two decades since I last needed/used one, but is there any modern KVM switch that works with Mac’s properly? Lost faith in a wide screen Picture in Picture monitor so hope the KVM world is better
October 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
It has been about two decades since I last needed/used one, but is there any modern KVM switch that works with Mac’s properly? Lost faith in a wide screen Picture in Picture monitor so hope the KVM world is better
Reposted by Daniel Cuthbert
Our hacker movie podcast series is back! And we kicked things off with a banger: SNEAKERS. The great
@dcuthbert.bsky.social joined @dennisf.bsky.social to break down this classic and its lasting effect on the hacker community.
youtu.be/b9uIocMMFlw?...
@dcuthbert.bsky.social joined @dennisf.bsky.social to break down this classic and its lasting effect on the hacker community.
youtu.be/b9uIocMMFlw?...
The Hacker Movie Canon: SNEAKERS
YouTube video by Decipher
youtu.be
September 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Our hacker movie podcast series is back! And we kicked things off with a banger: SNEAKERS. The great
@dcuthbert.bsky.social joined @dennisf.bsky.social to break down this classic and its lasting effect on the hacker community.
youtu.be/b9uIocMMFlw?...
@dcuthbert.bsky.social joined @dennisf.bsky.social to break down this classic and its lasting effect on the hacker community.
youtu.be/b9uIocMMFlw?...
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1/ Hi, I'm TProphet. I write the Telecom Informer for @2600.com. A lot of people have been asking me about www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... given that I'm somewhat knowledgeable in the area.
Here's my take: I'm kind of astonished that this is public, and it isn't normal that it would ever be.
Here's my take: I'm kind of astonished that this is public, and it isn't normal that it would ever be.
Secret Service agents dismantle network that could shut down New York cellphone system
Agents discovered electronic devices in five locations in and around the city that could be used to disable cellphone towers. The system could also be used for criminal activities.
www.nbcnews.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
1/ Hi, I'm TProphet. I write the Telecom Informer for @2600.com. A lot of people have been asking me about www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... given that I'm somewhat knowledgeable in the area.
Here's my take: I'm kind of astonished that this is public, and it isn't normal that it would ever be.
Here's my take: I'm kind of astonished that this is public, and it isn't normal that it would ever be.
And on the seventh day…
September 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
And on the seventh day…
Finally got my Kodak Vision3 motion picture film scans back of Thailand. Low light, playing with colour and I'm super happy with these.
Really sums up the vibe that is Silom, BKK and I do miss my old home
Really sums up the vibe that is Silom, BKK and I do miss my old home
September 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Finally got my Kodak Vision3 motion picture film scans back of Thailand. Low light, playing with colour and I'm super happy with these.
Really sums up the vibe that is Silom, BKK and I do miss my old home
Really sums up the vibe that is Silom, BKK and I do miss my old home