Kevin "Johnson" Tackett

@SwiftOnSecurity Interesting as I never thought of it this way. Repeating the person's name is a way I work to remember it. Damn it, now I need to figure out a new way. :)

This is something I've had to unlearn once I found out it was taught as a persuasion technique. It's how I just grew up talking to people I think highly of or are intimidated by. 🫤

@engineering_bae @dieworkwear No idea if it would compliment your outfits as I need help picking out mine. But Tissot is one of my favorites. My wife has bought me two and they are beautiful.

@dieworkwear Any alternative suggestions for someone that's new to the watch world, but want some cool pieces to compliment my outfits?

rolex makes objectively good watches, but the brand is so closely associated with a kind of status-obsessed braggart who's constantly assessing other people's social positions that it's hard to get into their watches. spiritually painful.

New Layer 8 Podcast with Jennifer Shannon and Kevin Tackett of @secureideas. Fun chat about social engineering and covert entry. What do you do when you lose your coat during an engagement? open.spotify.com/episode/16g9fH…

@jsark983 @HackingLZ Absolutely.

@HackingLZ @secureideas The first number goes way down and middle number way up as you climb ranks

I like to keep this screenshots around from a friends onboarding deck 10+ years ago.

@0xTib3rius @AcrossPondPod Sounds fun. I will subscribe.

Looking for more people to join us on @AcrossPondPod and share "war stories" from their careers, or rant about a subject, or just talk about fun Cybersecurity stuff. We have some really cool people lined up. You could be one of them. Reply or DM, and if you have DM'd and I've missed it please feel free to tell me to check my damn DMs. 😭

Excited to announce that I married a wonderful woman last week. I have chosen to take her name, and so I am now Kevin Tackett.

@UK_Daniel_Card @bettersafetynet I like the Mick chap.

@bettersafetynet Some people are fucking odd and have serious problems. But in the other end this chap Mick is pretty damn awesome. 🫡

I *love* teaching SANS SEC497... but there's a part of it where it talks about the JD1 saga... and we just covered that section today. Enough time has passed that I hope JD gets help My involvement of the drama ended up with strangers supporting me. 1

@sciencegirl She loves me.

Current status: There's a conflict between Google cybersecurity researchers and the @ffmpeg project that doesn't have the resources to fix the vulns Google finds. So I'm busy trying to understand the bug to figure out how to patch it. Google provided enough information to easily reproduce the bug, so I simply compile everything, then watch it crash in the debugger, then step through the code before it gets to that point to see what went wrong. I've spent about 5 hours so far on this, mostly getting everything built properly on macOS, which is my preferred environment for debugging. I should be learning how to use VSCode on the Linux desktop as my source-level debugger. Fuck using raw gdb without a GUI frontend -- my philosophy for (checks notes) over 30 years.

@kingthorin_rm LOL Oh you know.

@secureideas "What you talkin about Willis?" 😁

Some days I wonder why we all can't see the other side of the debate. The FFMPEG vs Google is interesting in lots of ways. But the one I am most interested in is how the sides "debate".

Of course, I know I am guilty of the same at times. And I look forward to the ways I am misunderstood in this post. :)

We all want to prove our point and lose sight of the importance of what we are doing. We need to do better.

@MoarGood Thank you. It is interesting how different it is when you do.

@secureideas Congrats on getting married! I like when people find their person.

As someone who changed my last name when I turned 18 and with my upcoming marriage, it has got me thinking. For those of you who had their name changed AFTER they were professionally and publicly established in their career, how did you handle it and what impact did it have?

@MoarGood And I you.

@secureideas No matter what your name is, I’d still hang out with you.

@MoarGood Oh if I change, Kevin will remain. I am considering changing my last name.

@secureideas Not sure. But if you don’t want me to call you Kevin anymore, you just have to let me know. I hope to see you at Wwhf!

Now another two hours into this shit-show and I still don't have service on my daughter's phone. Seriously considering switching. But am afraid I will lose my number.

Anyone know a better way to handle this? Cause I am pretty pissed. :)

So @Google @googlefi messed up my daughter's phone last July. No one noticed because the service still worked. Tonight we had to factory reset her phone. No service. I just spent an hour on the phone with support. They acknowledge that it was their mistake yet are telling me