Not so discrete

Ahead of Defcon, the always-brilliant @SamyKamkar gave me a preview of his infrared laser spy tool: He can point a laser through a window at a laptop to detect its vibrations and derive the words typed on it from the acoustics of different keystrokes. wired.com/story/infrared…

This thread will brighten up your day. 1. The cutest photo at the Paris Olympics.

they use opensesame in A Murder at the End of the World (FX, 2023), and they use goodfet to program it! (samy k͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓amkar͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛, Travis Goodspeed 👀)

Yup. The slipstream page describes how to inject arbitrary UDP packets from the browser via TURN's authentication mechanism as an individual packet though I haven't tested that mechanism since release, search "TURN" @ samy.pl/slipstream/ (there are likely other ways too)

Remembering the greatest security blog post + tool of all time: magspoof by samy k͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓amkar͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛ It demos a wireless credit card spoofer that: •Allows you to store all of your credit cards and magstripes in one device •Works on traditional magstripe readers wirelessly (no NFC/RFID

Post something that's a flex to a niche group, that most folks won't understand.

TIL it's possible to create un-deleteable "cookies"

vibe CADding!

Got laser eye surgery (PRK) and supposed to wear these not so fun clear plastic protective glasses so coated them with an atomically thin translucent layer of gold in the home vacuum chamber. Now I just need a name for my etsy store.

🥳 #hw_ioUSA2025 welcomes samy k͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓amkar͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛ as our Keynote! A name synonymous with creativity and curiosity in infosec—Samy is a self-taught hacker, entrepreneur, and the mind behind some of the most iconic security research of our time. 👉hardwear.io/usa-2025/speak… #hardwaresecurity

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Woot! Excited about Pablos' book, was inspired by this dude since I first met him @ defcon when I was 14 deepfuture.tech/book

En route to DEF CON! SFSU awarded me an honorary doctorate there last year, now I just need a high school diploma to complete the set

The original Magspoof! Kali Linux Raspberry 3 copying magstripe on an active SZEP (gift) card. Thanks to samy k͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓͓amkar͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛͛ for making this possible 🙏 So good to touch this device after 8 years. Time flies 😎📡💳 OffSec Mobile Hacker Hack es Langos V0lk3n Re4son Kernel

2005: The Samy worm, the first self-propagating cross-site scripting worm, was released onto the mega-popular MySpace by 19-year-old Samy Kamkar. It spread like wildfire. He's since made numerous impactful security and privacy field contributions. samy is my hero