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Overview
DEFCON.social = The intersection of technology and society, a community for artists, hackers, policy, academics, researchers, infosec, activists & cyberpunks.
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Jeff Moss (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 imagesRIP FX - You are a legend.Here Dino is delivering his Pwnie Award, as well as the last public post FX made last year.
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flipper (@[email protected])
Exploiting open ollama instances for free LLM inferencehttps://flipper.prose.sh/ollama
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DEF CON (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 imageGood thing there's a weekend coming up - the #defcon Youtube channel has dropped a few hundred #defcon33 videos for your leisurely perusal. Clear your schedule and let the #dc33 Main Stage and Creator Stage Talks wash over your thirsty br
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S.O.D.A Machine (@[email protected])
12 Posts, 1 Following, 48 Followers S.O.D.A: Shell On Demand Appliance -- SODA is a Dixie Narco 501e Modified with a data center inside of it to provide shells at DEF CON.
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Mysk (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 imagesApple just updated the support page about iCloud Keychain and removed the part that says when keychain data is deleted from Apple servers. This means if #iOS17, #iPadOS17, or #macOS 14 has turned syncing on without your permission, it's
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Mysk (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 imagePhilips Hue will soon force users to create a Hue account and sign in to continue to use the app and control the smart lights. The best security model to protect smart devices is to keep them disconnected from the internet, or at least ke
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Mysk (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images"Over a month of standby"This is how Apple used to market the iPad's battery. Today, the iPad runs several background processes while in standby. My HomeKit experiment clearly shows that. I achieved 20 days of standby on my iPad Pro. Wit
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Corbin (@[email protected])
#FreeSoftware is a commune, in the traditional #communist sense: software is contributed by people who are able to write it, and deployed by people who desire to use it. This is well-established, and remaining arguments are over the standard misunderstand
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Mysk (@[email protected])
Attached: 4 imagesGoogle has just updated its 2FA Authenticator app and added a much-needed feature: the ability to sync secrets across devices.TL;DR: Don't turn it on.The new update allows users to sign in with their Google Account and sync 2FA secrets a
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at DEF CON Social over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
77
Postings analysed
11
Stack modernity
87/100AI adopter
Languages
Python82%
SQL45%
JavaScript18%
TypeScript18%
Frameworks & libraries
pgvector18%
Angular9%
Blazor9%
Cypress9%
Databases
PostgreSQL27%
Cloud & platforms
AWS18%
AWS Bedrock9%
Amazon EC29%
Amazon S39%
AI & ML
ChatGPT9%
Claude9%
LLM9%
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Full DEF CON Social tech stack
77 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$193k
Typical range
$110k – $200k
Open positions
6
5
Jobs
Middle
20%
Senior
80%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $160k | $160k |
| Senior | 4 | $198k | $110k – $200k |
Highest paying role
ML Engineer, Retrieval & Grounded Generation
$200k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at DEF CON Social
By role, level and city, against the market · 6 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
90/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
6
6 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
42 days
faster than 31% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
14%
QA
14%
Industrial Engineering
14% ▲
Data Science
7% ▲
Backend
7% ▼
Leadership
7% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added Structured Outputs to stack
Oct 2026
Added NLP to stack
Oct 2026
Added LLM to stack
Oct 2026
Added Slack to stack
Sep 2026
New location: McLean
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added DLP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
McLean
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McLean
United States
RCP HQ (McLean, VA)
6 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 83% remote $176k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, AI/ML, Data Science
Coronado
United States
Regional office
RCP San Diego (Coronado, CA)
Torrance
United States
Regional office
RCP LA (Torrance, CA)
New York
United States
Regional office
RCP New York (New York, NY)
Jobs
$165k – $200k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Top Secret • 6+ years exp • McLean
Python
SQL
PostgreSQL
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Platform Engineering
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$150k – $190k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Top Secret • McLean
Python
SQL
NIST AI RMF
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$165k – $200k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Top Secret • 5+ years exp • McLean
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