First Security Conference, First Defcon, Defcon 34

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This post is coming very late. It should’ve been here about two months ago. There are a few reasons. The main ones being :

I was worried about writing posts because even though I dont want AI companies using my posts without my consent in their dataset, I cannot ensure this, and I cannot for some reason trust them to use not just mine, but anyone’s work without consent.
I was so deep in the work immediately after coming from DEFCON, I barely used to leave my room for days.

What about now? What changed? Well, first of all I realized that I’m restraining myself for something that I like doing sometimes. I like writing about things I’m learning or have learned and I should not confine myself in fear of training an agent about how to generate the next token. Second, this two months after defcon, I’ve spent my time heavily on using agents and writing custom harnesses. I wasnt well introduced with anything about how LLMs and agents work and suddenly I just realized I can have some fun writing a harness and watch the agent being in the loop, doing part of my repetitive work for me. As a result, I do want the agents to improve in their writing and in their thought process, just not without proper crediting the original source of information.

Conference on Siddharth Mishra

First Security Conference, First Defcon, Defcon 34