Ryan Basden
@ryanbasden.com
Independent security contractor.
#1 photography account about hacking.
Previously:
@bishopfox Red Team
@risk3sixty Pentesting Practice Lead
#1 photography account about hacking.
Previously:
@bishopfox Red Team
@risk3sixty Pentesting Practice Lead
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Ryan Basden
@ryanbasden.com
· Nov 8
The more I talk to other security consultants, the more I realize that the industry deserves a shake-up. FTE seems more and more like an inevitable path to burnout every day.
Does Bluesky really still not support TOTP? Can I stop having to copy a code from my email and remove the backticks that it includes?
November 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Does Bluesky really still not support TOTP? Can I stop having to copy a code from my email and remove the backticks that it includes?
Reposted by Ryan Basden
STOP CALLING IT VISHING AND SMISHING
YOU SOUND LIKE A FUCKING TODDLER BABBLING NONSENSE
ITS PHISHING OR SOCIAL ENGINEERING
REEEEEEEEE
YOU SOUND LIKE A FUCKING TODDLER BABBLING NONSENSE
ITS PHISHING OR SOCIAL ENGINEERING
REEEEEEEEE
September 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
STOP CALLING IT VISHING AND SMISHING
YOU SOUND LIKE A FUCKING TODDLER BABBLING NONSENSE
ITS PHISHING OR SOCIAL ENGINEERING
REEEEEEEEE
YOU SOUND LIKE A FUCKING TODDLER BABBLING NONSENSE
ITS PHISHING OR SOCIAL ENGINEERING
REEEEEEEEE
Watch out for people who take your personal growth personally.
August 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Watch out for people who take your personal growth personally.
Working on a conference talk
August 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Working on a conference talk
"nano is for babies" - crontab
August 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"nano is for babies" - crontab
It's a personal conviction of mine that, for how much of the tech industry operates out of Atlanta, there is a serious lack of quality security conferences and communities. But I know some people trying to change that.
July 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's a personal conviction of mine that, for how much of the tech industry operates out of Atlanta, there is a serious lack of quality security conferences and communities. But I know some people trying to change that.
Most fun I've ever had speaking at a conference, hands down. If you were there at @wildwesthackinfest.bsky.social , you were the best audience a guy could hope for.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrtp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrtp...
Solving Dumb Hacker Problems With Nix | Ryan Basden
YouTube video by Wild West Hackin' Fest
www.youtube.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Most fun I've ever had speaking at a conference, hands down. If you were there at @wildwesthackinfest.bsky.social , you were the best audience a guy could hope for.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrtp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrtp...
I would simply write memory-safe code
July 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I would simply write memory-safe code
Laptop numpads are psychotic, why do I have to overextend my right shoulder just to type
June 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Laptop numpads are psychotic, why do I have to overextend my right shoulder just to type
Finally getting around to watching Chernobyl and all I see is a bunch of MBAs making fun of technical experts and high-fiving
June 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Finally getting around to watching Chernobyl and all I see is a bunch of MBAs making fun of technical experts and high-fiving
If there's anything I can count on BlueSky for, it's showing me all of the stuff I've painstakingly worked to not have to look at on Twitter.
June 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If there's anything I can count on BlueSky for, it's showing me all of the stuff I've painstakingly worked to not have to look at on Twitter.
"In addition, ChatGPT doesn’t just itself fail to recognize the difference between fact and fiction, it presents these answers to people who are themselves unable to discern the difference."
lmnt.me/blog/the-dys...
lmnt.me/blog/the-dys...
The Dystopian Dream Team
lmnt.me
May 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"In addition, ChatGPT doesn’t just itself fail to recognize the difference between fact and fiction, it presents these answers to people who are themselves unable to discern the difference."
lmnt.me/blog/the-dys...
lmnt.me/blog/the-dys...
A little tired of getting random junk in conference "swag bags", can I opt out? I don't need fifty branded drawstring bags that I'm just going to donate and might eventually end up in a landfill.
May 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A little tired of getting random junk in conference "swag bags", can I opt out? I don't need fifty branded drawstring bags that I'm just going to donate and might eventually end up in a landfill.
iPad babies can be any age.
May 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
iPad babies can be any age.
Hey Gemini, which spreadsheet does this company store passwords in
April 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Hey Gemini, which spreadsheet does this company store passwords in
imagine still using OOP when you could vibe-code functions and structs
April 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
imagine still using OOP when you could vibe-code functions and structs
Some of my favorites from Zion National Park.
Taken with Kodak Portra 400.
Taken with Kodak Portra 400.
March 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Some of my favorites from Zion National Park.
Taken with Kodak Portra 400.
Taken with Kodak Portra 400.
I wish Signal would find a way to make their service censorship-resistant. Can't help but feel like completely abandoning countries that demand encryption backdoors is the wrong move.
Better to refuse AND make service use as hard to restrict as possible.
Better to refuse AND make service use as hard to restrict as possible.
March 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I wish Signal would find a way to make their service censorship-resistant. Can't help but feel like completely abandoning countries that demand encryption backdoors is the wrong move.
Better to refuse AND make service use as hard to restrict as possible.
Better to refuse AND make service use as hard to restrict as possible.
Mudge is the Obi-wan Kenobi that the industry needs right now. Stop what you're doing and read this blog.
The Security Conversation - The value of offensive security work is fully realized by participation in the security conversation.
aff-wg.org/2025/03/13/t...
aff-wg.org/2025/03/13/t...
March 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Mudge is the Obi-wan Kenobi that the industry needs right now. Stop what you're doing and read this blog.
Got my personal site running (again) in its new forever location. Any tech writing I do that isn't explicitly meant to be customer facing will be there, including but not limited to:
- Rambunctious research
- Pontification
- Snide commentary
- Corporate criticism
- Rambunctious research
- Pontification
- Snide commentary
- Corporate criticism
March 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Got my personal site running (again) in its new forever location. Any tech writing I do that isn't explicitly meant to be customer facing will be there, including but not limited to:
- Rambunctious research
- Pontification
- Snide commentary
- Corporate criticism
- Rambunctious research
- Pontification
- Snide commentary
- Corporate criticism
Reposted by Ryan Basden
The Security Conversation - The value of offensive security work is fully realized by participation in the security conversation.
aff-wg.org/2025/03/13/t...
aff-wg.org/2025/03/13/t...
March 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The Security Conversation - The value of offensive security work is fully realized by participation in the security conversation.
aff-wg.org/2025/03/13/t...
aff-wg.org/2025/03/13/t...
Use social engineering to get your competetive friends back to their gym routine and PR #wehackhealth
March 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Use social engineering to get your competetive friends back to their gym routine and PR #wehackhealth
February 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Nothing will make me stop listening to someone faster than if they they do 👏 this 👏 clap 👏 thing.
February 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Nothing will make me stop listening to someone faster than if they they do 👏 this 👏 clap 👏 thing.
TSA: you can opt out, but we delete the face ID photos right after we take them, so it's all good either way
a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .
ALT: a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
TSA: you can opt out, but we delete the face ID photos right after we take them, so it's all good either way