That Claude $20,000 in LLM time burnt to find a bug in OpenBSD?
Kinda reminds me of that CCC talk on OpenBSD by that person who was like, super critical of OpenBSD, one of the security features (I don't remember which one and I really don't feel like re-watching that video on this slow WiFi just to be more precise with citations) he sort of hand waved away with something along the lines of: "maybe this is useful for some CTF competition, but not in the real world."
I mean, I dunno much about CTF competitions everywhere. At ToorCon 8, I sorta stood over jose's shoulder while he helped their CTF team get something to compile and for some reason, I ended up on that year's t-shirt, twice, as a result! ;) I also know some of the old DefCon CTF folks. obecian, of the Ghetto Hackers? Was an OpenBSD developer. Ghetto Hackers, having won CTFs in the past, I guess got to organize future CTFs or something?
OpenBSD was banned from CTFs IIRC, because it set the bar too high. In a Capture The Flag competition, you need hosts which are actually able to be exploited.
So, no, I don't think OpenBSD developers make security features, for CTF competitions, because at least, the last time I paid any attention to such things? OpenBSD was prohibited from being used in such things. That would be a lot of wasted development effort, for something from which no one would benefit.
As an aside, one of the two times (the first time I think? 2005?) that I ever ended up attending DefCon, I learned from Caezar how obecian got ingratiated into their group. Pretty hilarious story, but I would be retelling it with about two decades in between when I heard it and now, and doubtlessly would get some details incorrect. Not the thing to write about online so much as share in person anyway. ^_^
As an aside, didja see the Call For Papers for ToorCamp 2026?
https://talks.toorcon.net/toorcamp-2026/cfp
I dunno if I will have my life together enough to attend (it's late June, seems, dubious) but having attended ToorCamp in 2009 and having heard nothing but good things about it improving over the ensuring years? I am guessing it will be a good time!
#CTF #OpenBSD #ToorCamp #GhettoHackers
Kinda reminds me of that CCC talk on OpenBSD by that person who was like, super critical of OpenBSD, one of the security features (I don't remember which one and I really don't feel like re-watching that video on this slow WiFi just to be more precise with citations) he sort of hand waved away with something along the lines of: "maybe this is useful for some CTF competition, but not in the real world."
I mean, I dunno much about CTF competitions everywhere. At ToorCon 8, I sorta stood over jose's shoulder while he helped their CTF team get something to compile and for some reason, I ended up on that year's t-shirt, twice, as a result! ;) I also know some of the old DefCon CTF folks. obecian, of the Ghetto Hackers? Was an OpenBSD developer. Ghetto Hackers, having won CTFs in the past, I guess got to organize future CTFs or something?
OpenBSD was banned from CTFs IIRC, because it set the bar too high. In a Capture The Flag competition, you need hosts which are actually able to be exploited.
So, no, I don't think OpenBSD developers make security features, for CTF competitions, because at least, the last time I paid any attention to such things? OpenBSD was prohibited from being used in such things. That would be a lot of wasted development effort, for something from which no one would benefit.
As an aside, one of the two times (the first time I think? 2005?) that I ever ended up attending DefCon, I learned from Caezar how obecian got ingratiated into their group. Pretty hilarious story, but I would be retelling it with about two decades in between when I heard it and now, and doubtlessly would get some details incorrect. Not the thing to write about online so much as share in person anyway. ^_^
As an aside, didja see the Call For Papers for ToorCamp 2026?
https://talks.toorcon.net/toorcamp-2026/cfp
I dunno if I will have my life together enough to attend (it's late June, seems, dubious) but having attended ToorCamp in 2009 and having heard nothing but good things about it improving over the ensuring years? I am guessing it will be a good time!
#CTF #OpenBSD #ToorCamp #GhettoHackers
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