Mark Dowd

We are excited to announce our first speaker for Unprompted.au: Valentina Palmiotti (@chompie.rip), who will be presenting BinChomp - her autonomous n-day exploit generation pipeline!

The Junkyard Call for Bugs is officially open! 👾 www.districtcon.org/junkyard For additional information, please reference our Disclosure Guidance doc: lnkd.in/ewjswJyf And if you missed last years presentations, check them out on YouTube now: www.youtube.com/@DistrictCon...

The Unprompted.au CFP is officially OPEN! If you are doing cool stuff with AI in offense, defense, or working on core AI tech (from frontier models to open source LLMs), we'd love to hear from you! Submit here: www.unprompted.au

The unprompted.au website is live. This is an Ai cybersecurity conference that will take place in Sydney in September: www.unprompted.au. Initial ticket offering is live and CFP will open imminently

Brief announcement: Launching Unprompted.au later this year in Sydney — a new conference focused on offensive and defensive security research using AI, and on how AI is reshaping the field. Sister conference to Unprompted. More updates coming soon

The world in "Predator: Badlands" (Genna) is basically what Americans think Australia is like when I talk to them

Is anyone going to ekoparty?

I have a spare hexacon ticket if anyone wants it

🪩 CFP closes soon!! 🪩 submit to sessionize.com/districtcon

Woke up today and chose violence. SMASHED my 5k PB by 28s. New score 18:17!!

New 10km PB: 38:07! Official race time was 38:43 though (course was 10.2 km apparently). Beat my previous PB by over a minute!

In all my years in cybersecurity, I don't recall ever attending a talk given by someone with a scouse accent, which is an outrage. I have a presentation coming up this week, maybe if I do some practice I can correct this

Old school programming: I'm going to design a cool game but it's gotta fit in 64k New school programming: I'm going to design a cool game but it's gotta fit in 64k tokens

Survivor Island - Vigilant style!

Vibe coding is rather convenient, but I think one downside of allowing coders to fast track making stuff is missing out on some potentially interesting discoveries had you taken the time to learn the technology. Similar to fuzzing vs manual auditing

Totally patted an alligator

lol. Halvar's final slide

DistrictCon kicking off with opening remarks from @winnona.bsky.social

Going viral on Bluesky should be called "the butterfly effect"

Happy birthday @runasand.bsky.social !

People like to keep their friends close and their enemies closer. So I guess my advice is to observe the relative distance someone is keeping you at, and if it's closer than other people, you should destroy them.

My ancestors originally came to Australia as convicts, eventually getting their freedom. Since then, we mostly haven't reoffended. The system works! Happy Australia Day!

We're officially 1 month away from DistrictCon Year 0! Check out our agenda for talks, exploits, round tables, and more! www.districtcon.org/agenda

DOGE off to a strong start improving govt efficiency. Already fired half of their own management staff. Lead by example eh

In the business world, we should rename short term contracts to quests. It sounds way cooler. "What do you do for work?" "I'm currently on a quest to streamline logistics for a big importer"

When you're too busy hacking to do exercise -- do both!

Probably the best time in history to be a mathematician was around 600 BC when you could get rich just for discovering triangles

This site is actually Russian. It's pronounced "blue-skee"

Duo somehow has access to my internal monologue

I think this estimate is low, Duo

If there was a reboot of "The Wire", it'd just be these guys running Signal zero clicks all day

DistrictCon Talks Have Been Selected🎙️ www.districtcon.org/speakers Check out our incredible speaker lineup for DistrictCon 2025. Agenda (and more talk announcements) coming soon

Obligatory company surfing lesson for staff :)

It's crazy how there is some tech content here rather than 100% US politics/culture wars

Our test fleets are so pretty

Woah. Got my bsky account back. That took like 6 months or more

I was airborne a few seconds. Turns out it’s tricky

… I’m Iron Man

New t-shirts arrived. We were going for subtle

Post offensivecon fun!

Vigilant’s Amat Cama speaking about baseband hacking at offensivecon

For those going to offensivecon this week - come and say hi! (Also, my company vigilant labs is hiring vuln researchers - let us know if you’re interested. Email is contact@vigilantlabs.com)