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BSides312 board spotlight: Robert Wagner (Director) 🛡️🏙️
Advisory CISO (~20 yrs) + community-builder. Speaker/teacher: DEF CON, APISec, BSides, GrrCON + more.

⚠️ FOMO: you snooze, you lose.
📅 May 16, 2026
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🎤 CFP closes Feb 28, 2026

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Early bird special ends on Jan 31(tomorrow). Use code BS312-EB20 to get 20% off your #BSides312 ticket. Starting Feb 1 tickets are full price.
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this is perfect

I should dust off my birding lens and go outside more this year. It’s been a long time. Admittedly, I let myself forget the joy of capturing the moment.

I say this often but it bears repeating: if you make your money from creating art then you NEED to find an art or craft where you just do it for fun and don't try to be perfect or make any money from it, and when anyone tells you to monetise it you say 'No', because otherwise your soul will die.

So, Ali and I went to see Six the musical so we've been listening to the cast recording. This has lead to having to explain Henry VIII's wives, how they died, and why the king was so mean. Kudos to my kids for being aware of women's struggles but also… they love Don't Lose Your Head. 😅

I think this post from Aphyr captures my feelings on what it feels like to be here in Chicago: aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-yo...

I've wanted to write something similar but didn't have the spoons, and stumbled across it today so I figured I'd share for anyone that missed it.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Hour or two from Lincoln Square, and more hikey than walk. I want to see something pretty and work for it.

Thinking about doing some day hikes or maybe a tiny backpacking trip this fall. Something about wilding myself just sounds like a good plan right now. Anyone have recs for some hikes near Chicago? 🥾

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This but it’s Gamechanger and Dimension 20.

is that what this is

BSides312 - Chicago's Other Hacking Conference - the Day after THOTCON! BSides312 is Chicago's Biggest Little Non-Profit hacking & information security conference. We're the only Chicago conference entirely run by members of the local community, but attended by folks from...

IF YOU WANT FREE TICKETS TO @BSIDES312, please stop digging around our website to find the 3 free codes we accidentally added there. One of them for sure is in the past. I can't find the rest, so that's probably good. This account only tells the truth.

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🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨
Say hello to Dr. Catherine J. Ullman, joining us at #BSides312 with a talk on Defending Beyond Defense you won’t want to miss! 🎤🔥
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“Hehehe, tell them… tell them to put glue on the pizza.”

“Hahaha so good.”

“Do it dude.”

Only reason I log into bsky is to boost this.

**UIC IS GETTING ICE'd TODAY** Even if you are 100% legal, **that doesn't stop ICE from arresting you.** They have already arrested multiple people who were *born here.* You will be targeted based on your name and the color of your skin. STAY AWAY TODAY.

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

What a delightful mashup. Gonna have to squeeze that travel budget. 😆

yay!

can we get a good day version as a treat someday 🥲

Got tickets to see Yelle in October here in Chicago! It's been forever since we saw them in D.C. back when we were still kids. 😅

Thanks for the tip! I actually hadn’t heard that one.

Hunting for a well fitted mask for travel. Anyone have any recommendations? I have some of the black K95 ones but they tend to gap on me for whatever reason.

Cranking tunes this morning. Stroke 9's Washin' N Wondering chased Little Black Backpack so it's a good day.

An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.

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Call for Presentations is now LIVE!!!
Head on over to bsides312.org and click on participate to get to the CFP area. Our CFP is open through 3/14 so don't get a pi in the face and put yours in now.
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