BSides Idaho Falls 2025 - Track 1 Afternoon

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>> Don't worry, we'll get there. We'll get there.

>> Can you imagine? I fix it and Slate had like a collaboration and then you they send you just like billets of aluminum for you to mill out on your own machine with

So, if you look at the text, it's like all blurry in the logo because the only images I could get of this were like 250 by like 250. So, I threw it in an AI upscaler. And I'm impressed how I did with this text. I don't know if it actually is accurate. I didn't read it. Yeah, the logo itself, >> it's all like jacked up. I have another one. Um, oh, actually, no, I ended up deleting it, but I have another one and it added like text into one of the fields and it was like all like blurry artifacting. It was >> Sorry. >> Oh, hello. >> Okay, sounds good.

It does. It's not great. And it and it was like the free website that I'm like worried. Am I actually should I actually download a file from this website?

It's like if you say a word over and over and over again.

Yeah, >> Wayne. >> Nice to meet you, Wayne. >> I'm the volunteer that will do you the introduction. >> Okay, great. Thank you. >> I don't know if you're paying attention to the rapid talks. had a scheduling issue in that they didn't put in breaks. They're planning on starting these tracks five or 10 minutes late. So, >> okay, >> not a problem.

>> Give me 20 minutes back.

>> Okay. >> So, are you here on break or did you drive up? >> I drove up. Yeah. >> Yeah. I'm very excited about it. It'll be fun. This is my first time doing anything like this. So, >> we're good. Besides, >> yeah, >> glad to have you up here. Extended community. I think Utah has I don't know if you've been to theirs, but >> we just had one in Cash Valley. Yes. >> Um but I missed that. And they do one in Salt Lake City. >> Yeah. They have another event, the St. S. That's pretty pretty well organized. >> Yeah.

>> Yeah.

>> Yes.

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>> You want to know something else that's kind of funny >> that I did that was entirely unnecessary? So the image is a square, but if I had blown it up anymore, then it would have cropped it out. And so I set the background of the slide to be a gradient, but then I had to like add like a dozen gradient points so it would like match. And it doesn't match perfectly well on my screen, but I knew on the projector it would be so washed out that you can't tell. Like it looks you don't you can't see a line at all. But I occasionally do that thing where you spend too much time on the little

details.

Um, I'm the goal is not to in front of this desk too much. I probably will walk around a little bit. Um >> Oh, turn that back on.

>> Turn green. Let's see. Let's try that again. >> There we go. >> Okay, cool.

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>> Oh, okay.

>> It's blue. >> Okay. Um so uh welcome to the afternoon side of track 2. Wayne Ostead from the Auto Nash Laboratory. I'd like to introduce Owen Clark uh who is a student at Utah State University. So he's driven up to our event. Um he's majoring in information systems and cyber security uh but also has a minor in anticipatory intelligence. There's a neat intenstory intelligence center down at Utah State University that um has been founded from former intelligence community directors and others. So we appreciate them standing that up. Prior to USU uh he was from uh Righom Young University spent a lot of time doing Captain Flag competitions network infrastructure uh and also working as an intern with

Seaman's Alphaneers. >> Yeah. in Egypt participating in humanitarian trips to Jordan and Uganda. Outside of school, he enjoys cello climbing and watching Formula 1, which interestingly enough becoming much more popular with the movies and things like that. So, I'm gonna have to catch up on the series myself. Anyway, he'll be talking to us about activists and and uh some of the memory issues. >> Great. Thank you, Wayne, for the introduction. Uh yeah, I'll do that. See, is it is it tracking me now? >> Yeah, I think so. Can you all hear me? Okay, too. My speaking volume is good enough. Um yeah, it's great introduction. Maybe one more thing about myself. The anticipatory intelligence program is a big passion of mine because

it focuses on kind of expanding your horizons and bringing in a lot of different perspectives in order to anticipate uh future events that My