Founder of DEF CON & Black Hat. Maintainer of infocon.org.
Member of the UK Gov Cybersecurity Advisory Board & The Council on Foreign Relations.
Working to get Hackers and Researchers a seat at the Policy table.
I'm interested in hacking, community, technology, privacy, security policy, and the intersection of civil society. (He/Him) Opinions are my own.
Previously member ONCD (2024-2025), CISA Cyber Security Advisory Council (2021-2025), and DHS Advisory Council (2009-2020)
Really wishing the Google Chrome performance team had not removed DANE support for TLSA records that allowed site operators to set their TLS certificates for others to trust. Now we have no alternatives but to trust every web PKI certificate. Yuck.
Please @FirefoxOfficial bring back DANE support, do the slightly slower but more safe thing.
qBittorrent, the most popular BitTorrent client, has released version 5.3 and it is a big one, defaulting to supporting both v1 and v2 torrents. Previously you had to D/L a separate v2 client, and almost no one did that.
v2 torrents support individual file torrenting. If a file you want to D/L from a torrent is also included in 10 different torrents you now have 11 sources, not just the one from your initial torrent file. This should really help with abandoned torrents and disappearing files.
https://www.qbittorrent.org/news
https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/