I witnessed something at DefCon that I think is not uncommon but no less off putting.

The speaker generously offered their time afterwards for an informal chat to those interested. In the circle one individual with a podcast led the question like this:
"I emailed you three times for an interview and never got a reply - should I send a 4th email or am I wasting my time?"

To their credit the speaker did not react and did not commit - but my only thought was - what a jackass. First no-one owes you their time, second have some respect - people don't exist for you to monetize them.

Fortunately this "podcaster" probably won't be around in the next 6months, and neither will they be missed
#defcon34

Me at work right now.

asking the LLM to produce a prompt I can use elsewhere kind of feels like when you were asked to go fetch your own switch...

Oh right intros;
First and foremost: DFIR and security operations! I have mostly been in the higher ed space with some government thrown in.

In a former life I helped some incredibly talented genetics researchers at various labs do their research on HPCs (Ask me about bypassing qsub node constraints!).

My belief is that the conceptual methods of looking for de novo mutations indicative of a genetic disease is not entirely dissimilar from looking for IoC's in a sea of IT telemetry.

I aim to validate that belief or learn trying.
#introduction #genomic #infosec