Rob Joyce, a former head of the NSA's Tailored Access Operations squad, shares his passion for Christmas light hacking at the Shmoocon conference.
In 2018, Rob Joyce, then Donald Trump's White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, gave a surprise talk at the legendary hacking conference Shmoocon about his hobby. As the former head of the NSA 's Tailored Access Operations squad – the people who crack systems and gather intelligence for the US government – Joyce was also the friendly public face of the agency.
The agency didn't come out of the Edward Snowden affair with a great reputation when the ex-NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower made public the existence of the. Many in the security industry were peeved at the agency's disregard for privacy and the accepted norms under which people assumed it operated. Joyce was part of a campaign to make the NSA acceptable again, and he was doing a good job. We covered at the first Enigma security conference, and it was unusually frank – most talks by agency personnel are about as exciting as watching paint dry. But the Shmoocon talk (see below) was a personal matter. It turns out Joyce is a big fan of Christmas, and of hacking the seasonal strings of lights that hang off so many American houses during the holiday season. As you can see from the video below, he's serious about it and applies all the rigor normally used to break into adversaries' networks to put on a show. Next year, at the last Shmoocon, Joyce will reprise his talk and offer updates on how to turn your house into a light show that will either delight, or irritate, the neighbors. He spoke to: We had a family tradition where we drove around looking at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve with the kids. And we passed a house only a few miles from us that had computer-controlled LEDs synchronized to music and a little radio station you tuned to. And it just captivated me. It was not elegant, right? It was over the top and gaudy, and just really made me happy. I said'I think I could do that,' meaning I have the technical chops to achieve it
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