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Talking security, AI, and hiking on the trail at Mount Si with Josh Pennell

Pacific Northwest: Gold Lake outlet waterfall. Some hikes are worth returning to every year.

Trillium’s are a sign of spring. Every year I look for the rare 4 petaled Trillium. This year I found a 6 petaled Trillium.

Some recent quotes that stuck with me: · "It’s always a no if you don’t ask" · "If you’re lost, the answer is education. If you’re educated, the answer is execution. If you’re executing, the answer is consistency" · "Learn one level deeper than you think necessary to be

Pacific Northwest: Summer in the mountains

Pacific Northwest: Every year I return to a drainage on Alta Mountain. There is a transient snow cave formed by warming meltwater.

Think Deeper. One line of this SentinelOne blog (🙏 Tom Hegel and Aleksandar Milenkoski) stood out to me. 💭"Encrypts and password-protects the archive using 7-Zip with the password @WsxCFt6&UJMmko0, ensuring the data is obfuscated from inspection." Pretty strong password at first

This weekend, I gave a talk on web browser security research at a student-organized conference. I tried to make the talk reasonably beginner-friendly, so the slides (linked here) could hopefully be useful to someone as a learning resource. docs.google.com/presentation/d…

This is one of those statements that either seems nonsensical or completely makes sense.

Some quotes 💭 from an older notebook: • "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves" • "Fear of conflict and fear of telling the truth are one and the same thing. The person who lies to avoid conflict is powerless to tell the truth."

Highlighters absorb ultraviolet light and re-emit it as visible light. That’s why they are brighter. Wild.

I enjoy books about polar exploration and they are just full of 💎 like: “Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.” Apsley Cherry-Garrard