it’s important to say things
Ambiguity sucks. It often leaves people self-conscious. It leaves room for anxiety and doubt. It’s super important to say things.
Joseph Thacker
My thoughts on hacking, ai, faith, and more.
Latest posts
Launching: rez0’s rascals
I built a K-5 learning app for homeschool, co-op, and hybrid-school families.
Operation Floodlight
I have been thinking about the downstream impacts of AI systems having strong cybersecurity capabilities.
The Bug Bounty Singularity: Our Hackbot
This past December, it became feasible for any skilled hacker to scale up a hacking agent, spending hundreds in token cost to find thousands in bounties. I call this the “Bug Bounty Singularity”. This is the story of JD (xssdoctor) and I building a hackbot which found 126 bugs in the last 5 months.
Launching: AI Safety For Parents
My first public launch: a simple 10-day email course that bottles up everything parents need to know about keeping their kids safe in an AI-powered world.
Claude Code Hacking Skills Video
Hey y’all,
The Agentic Hacking Era: Ramblings and a Tool
A few weeks ago I wrote about how AI is going to impact bug bounty. That post was mostly predictions. This one is about what’s actually happening right now.
AI’s Impact on Software and Bug Bounty
I have a lot of thoughts on how AI will affect things, including bug bounty. And most of it is speculation, of course, but I have to put this out into the world because I want to know if this is correct in a year or two.
Hacking An AI Children’s Toy: Remote Access to Every Conversation
My neighbor texted me the other day and said she’d pre-ordered two AI toys for her kids that supposedly used an LLM to dynamically generate content for talking to the child. This was super fascinating to me. I’ve always thought something like that seemed awesome as kids can ask questions about anything, and get contextual answers back.
Words I Live By
Over 10 years ago, I put together a self “liturgy” of sorts (basically just a prayer) that I love reading. It takes a bunch of my favorite verses but changes them to the first-person perspective. There’s something about first person that makes it much more powerful and personal. As you read this, I pray it encourages you greatly.