Just finished my talk at #OBTS v7.0, spoke on Apple’s Rapid Security Response system.
Thank you to @patrickwardle & @andyrozen for hosting this amazing conference!
Slides and demo code below:
https://khronokernel.com/macos/2024/12/06/OBTS-v7-2024.html
Long thread/3
Expert agencies are often all that stands between us and extreme misadventure, even death. The modern world is full of modern questions, the kinds of questions that require a high degree of expert knowledge to answer, but also the kinds of questions whose answers you'd better get right.
You're not stupid, nor are you foolish. You could go and learn everything you need to know to evaluate the firmware on your antilock brakes and decide whether to trust them.
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@NanoRaptor incredible movie, even better books imo (haven't read the 4th yet..)
@shac is this the same issue where an app will appear focused but not respond to mouse/keyboard until changing focus to another app and back? i have run into this constantly on all my macs since, like, high sierra, though it's rarer these days
@SwiftOnSecurity why do employees fail phishing tests if they just click a link, anyways? shouldn't it be a pass if you realize it's fake and back out without entering any info? unless they are really simulating browser exploits rather than phishing..?
@Cdespinosa aw, you mean my sibling and i aren't allowed to say lukecold (mildly cold) anymore?
@hikari but maybe these abstract fates actually "scale" _better_ with age? like, pain and death are moderately horrifying to people of all ages; arguably adults even get desensitized. whereas young children won't put much thought into consciousness or free will or whatever, and adults are free to overthink and get terrified if they want
@nicolas17 @siguza oh and throw in a .html file between 2 and 4 gb because afaik this will still overflow and segfault wget -r
@simonzerafa @NanoRaptor i think i told someone i enabled Hardware Ray Tracing