Hacker. Enby. Administrative inconvenience. Purveyor of technically sophisticated shitposts. Suing the UK for more gender, help with my legal bills: https://enby.org.uk/ Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc Non-binary trans androgynous (they/them)https://bsky.app/profile/rya.nchttps://bsky.app/profile/rya.nc/post/3meng6rals22rThe age verifier knows how old you are at all times. It knows this because it knows how old you aren't. By subtracting how old you are from how old you aren't, or how old you aren't from how old you are (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or remainder.12 Feb 2026 06:59 +0000at://did:plc:eata5optbwzfharhpovudxdq/app.bsky.feed.post/3meng6rals22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/rya.nc/post/3mc3ul3fvg22jPartner: Hi Ryan, stick this in your mouth! (it was delicious homemade pasta sauce)10 Jan 2026 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:eata5optbwzfharhpovudxdq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc3ul3fvg22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/rya.nc/post/3mc3tmmo7ms2jPartner: You might log into BlueSky and post pictures of your rack.10 Jan 2026 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:eata5optbwzfharhpovudxdq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc3tmmo7ms2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/rya.nc/post/3lxyqlnmcc22yThe paper I presented at Security Protocols Workshop is out! The theme was "controversial security". We work to bridge the gap between platonic models of rational actors and the trenches, exploring why the real players don't always disclose vulnerabilities or issue patches. https://rya.nc/files/strategically_holding_back_bugs_patches_spw25.pdf04 Sep 2025 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:eata5optbwzfharhpovudxdq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxyqlnmcc22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rya.nc/post/3lxysulff7k2yReport JKR's tweets to the police, she's inciting violence. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2025 09:18 +0000at://did:plc:eata5optbwzfharhpovudxdq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxysulff7k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rya.nc/post/3lxyqlnmcc22yThe paper I presented at Security Protocols Workshop is out! The theme was "controversial security". We work to bridge the gap between platonic models of rational actors and the trenches, exploring why the real players don't always disclose vulnerabilities or issue patches. https://rya.nc/files/strategically_holding_back_bugs_patches_spw25.pdf04 Sep 2025 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:eata5optbwzfharhpovudxdq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxyqlnmcc22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rya.nc/post/3lvvzxpvzps2pI've been sitting on this code since the Bitfi debacle of 2018 - John McAfee was spokestroll for an "unhackable" cryptocurrency wallet, and long story short @saleem.bsky.social and built a reliable key extraction exploit and withheld the details out of spite. https://gist.github.com/ryancdotorg/278dd8d696a3d01761f30410d7d42bb508 Aug 2025 19:57 +0000at://did:plc:eata5optbwzfharhpovudxdq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvvzxpvzps2phttps://bsky.app/profile/rya.nc/post/3lvfmu7bud226I mostly share this sentiment, but what I really want is to be recognized as nonbinary. I do get spontaneously referred to in a gender neutral way fairly regularly. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Aug 2025 07:20 +0000at://did:plc:eata5optbwzfharhpovudxdq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvfmu7bud226https://bsky.app/profile/rya.nc/post/3lvd7fgzi3c2vJust looked up someone I once worked with on a CTF, and he's released something called "Monarch of the Hill" and I love it.01 Aug 2025 08:13 +0000at://did:plc:eata5optbwzfharhpovudxdq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvd7fgzi3c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/rya.nc/post/3lvd36nsbvc2vThe top anti-rights extremists are well aware of this, but since the facts don't support their position, they lie. We all pay the price. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Aug 2025 06:58 +0000at://did:plc:eata5optbwzfharhpovudxdq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvd36nsbvc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/rya.nc/post/3lv3j54vxp22tI had a simple goal: dump the MAC address forwarding database from a "Web Managed" PoE switch. It has SNMP, but of course it doesn't expose that information. Fine. Violence (scraping with a Python script) it is. I should have known this would not be straightforward.29 Jul 2025 06:46 +0000at://did:plc:eata5optbwzfharhpovudxdq/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv3j54vxp22t