Chcon2025

The Tale of the Curiously Empty String
2025-10-31 , Main Hall

Come along for a tenebrous tale of an incident responder who discovers something going on in the logs, late at night...


A spooky story of incident response, endpoint hygiene and detecting an sneaky attack ... in poem form.

Red Team @ GitLab. Loves finding intersections between interesting, and seemingly unrelated, topics. Usually found either making, growing or deconstructing something.

Previous talks include "Beyond 'delete my browser history': infosec after death", "My kids hack me and it's awesome", "An approximate history of accuracy", and an absolutely absurd maths lecture delivered via aerial silks performance called "Floating points".