# ideas people (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ideas people. Page: Feed: --- ## [Everyone Has A Plan Until They Get Punched In The SonicWall](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/song-of-heists-and-drive-bys/) _2026-08-02 · Ryan Basden_ Why any organization with a public IP has to plan for un-patchable zero-day exploitation, not just targeted attacks. ## [You Can't Just Publish Partial Exploits Anymore](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/partial-exploits/) _2026-07-31 · Ryan Basden_ Taking a 'safely' disclosed WordPress RCE most of the way to a full unauthenticated exploit chain with public research, a patch diff, and an LLM, and the rest with a public PoC. ## [One Home for Everything I Write](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/one-home-for-everything/) _2026-07-30 · Ryan Basden_ Consolidating my scattered writing under one roof, without giving up digital ownership. ## [What To Do With Bad Ideas From People Who Also Have Good Ideas](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/what-to-do-with-bad-ideas/) _2026-05-22 · Ryan Basden_ On consuming valuable ideas from people whose other beliefs you find repugnant, and why avoidance is the choice to be passive. ## [Infosec Training Is Weird Now](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/infosec-training-is-weird-now/) _2026-03-20 · Ryan Basden_ Enshittification comes for us all. ## [How to Ensure Your Purple Team Fails Miserably](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/how-purple-teams-fail/) _2026-03-15 · Ryan Basden_ The misaligned incentives, on both the client and consultant sides, that doom most purple team engagements before they start. ## [Ocean's Eleven Heists In a Louvre Four World](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/oceans-eleven-louvre/) _2026-03-02 · Ryan Basden_ What real-world heists and insider-threat data reveal about who actually breaks into buildings, and what a physical penetration test is worth. ## [How Shadow Incentives Harm Real Security](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/shadow-incentives/) _2026-02-12 · Ryan Basden_ The hidden incentive to make more money, not to reduce risk, that pushes the security industry toward compliance theater. ## [You Will Definitely Get Phished, So Stop Simulating It](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/you-will-get-phished/) _2026-01-16 · Ryan Basden_ Why phishing simulations punish employees for a problem they can't solve, and what actually reduces the risk of a successful phish. ## [Lessons in Project Management](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/management-lessons/) _2025-12-31 · Ryan Basden_ A largely unfiltered and slightly refined response to upper management's annoying idealisms. ## [Build with the cheapest GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ytEYGEsUCqPs) _2025-12-30 · **Sponsored**_ Deployed a live API in minutes; one user spent under $10. ## [Less Pager For Persistence](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/less-is-more/) _2025-09-16 · Ryan Basden_ New research for using \`less\` as a persistence mechanism. ## [Stop Breaking Your Feeds](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/stop-breaking-feeds/) _2025-07-18 · Ryan Basden_ RSS is supposed to be for the readers, not you. ## [C2 via Legitimate Services](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/lolc2/) _2025-02-25 · Ryan Basden_ A collection of legitimate services and how to use them for evil. ## [Link Blogs](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/link-blogs/) _2025-02-21 · Ryan Basden_ A nice way to share without writing an essay. ## [Recommended Blogs](https://ryanbasden.com/blog/blogroll/) _2025-01-20 · Ryan Basden_ A collection of blogs/feeds I read on a regular basis.