What You Give Away Might Be Worth More Than What You Keep
The sticking point is the word "free". If you do happen to get stuck there (and a lot of things will push you in that direction), a lot of the magic in the decision math gets missed. Everything has a Give and a Get and, if you're doing it right, nothing is ever given away for free.
If a tech solution falls in the forest...
A solution disconnected from it's problem isn't actually solving anything.
The Original Bug Bounty: Alfred Hobbs and the Great Lock Controversy of 1851
Alfred Hobbs: The OG bug bounty hunter who cracked England’s ‘unpick-able’ locks. His breaker mindset exposed flaws, sparked innovation, and proved no system is perfect.
9 Must-See Talks at #hackersummercamp 2022
Here's a list of the talks that I'm going to get myself along to at Blackhat and DEF CON this year, and why...
Titan Talks - Ep 2 - Casey John Ellis with @thecybermentor
I've watched Heath's journey as a education and community powerhouse, and more recently as an entrepreneur with tcm-sec with much interest and respect. We covered a lot of ground about entrepreneurship, founder DNA, competition, priorities, and the cybers all around.
Information Asymmetry and the 1950s Nuclear Bounty
Props to Matt Ploessel for calling out this one... I'd not heard of a bounty around nuclear weapons until today.
The Nth Country Experiment and Coincident Vulnerability Discovery
Nth Country Experiment - Nuclear MuseumCould any country with the right knowledge and technology build a nuclear bomb? From May
Happy 6th Birthday @bugcrowd
6 years ago today I got off a plane armed with a bunch of notes. I’d spent a week
How to disrupt a sleepy incumbent
When building a product or company that’s designed to disrupt a sleepy incumbent there are four phases of typical interaction you’ll have with your future competition.
Bugcrowd's First Principles
About 12 months after Bugcrowd started, one of our team pulled me aside and made a suggestion that truly altered