K. Reid Wightman :verified: 🌻 :donor: :clippy:

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@reverseics@infosec.exchange

Tinker, Sailor, Biker, Hi

I do industrial security research for a living, mostly looking for #vulnerabilities in all of the wrong places. I like reverse engineering how PLC logic systems function under the hood, learning how safety instrument protocols work, and figuring out what malicious threat groups are doing and can do with access to such systems. A long time ago, I invented the term 'foreverday' to describe unfixable vulnerabilities.

Occasionally I analyze #industrial #malware, too, and on very rare occasions encounter threat groups that actually write malicious logic to do the vile things that I like to learn about.

I work for a little startup in the space called Dragos. In my spare time I enjoy long distance #bicycling, #sailing, and doting on our #pets.

I used to have an account on :birdsite:, however I haven't used it in a while and you should no longer assume that it's under my control.

Trying not to be one of the 80% that can be moved in either direction.

Location
Des Moines, IA, USA, Planet Earth, second spiral arm around Sagittarius A
Pronouns
he/him or they/them
Security Level
Currently clean on opsec

New headcanon: after the events of Independence Day, the scientists at Area 51 decide that President Whitmore's speech was just too good at uniting humanity. If allowed to continue his term, they think all wars on earth will end as humanity unites to defend itself against the potential return of a common foe. So they make him disappear, staging it as a foreign assassination.

Instead of killing him though, they wipe his memory and use one of the alien flyers to drop him off at a monastery somewhere in the Ford Galaxy. Since he is kinda royalty, they leave him only with a necklace... #independenceday #spaceballs

Lone Star's necklace from Spaceballs, certifying him as a Prince.
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