Automated Trolling for Fun and No Profit

Presented at DEF CON 30 (2022), Aug. 12, 2022, 4 p.m. (50 minutes)

Having fun is at the core of discovering new CVEs or getting bug bounties. While this talk is about neither of those things, I want to show that doing something for the lulz can lead to some awesome possibilities no matter what you’re doing. Would you like to troll more but you work full time? Let’s automate! Are you one of the 40,000+ users who have been contacted by my bots such as the /r/pmmebot Reddit bot? Or ChinaNumberFour? Or J0hnnyDoxxille? Let’s talk it out. Some may say learning to code AI in Python just to troll is too much effort. I agree. I did it anyway.


Presenters:

  • burninator
    Burninator was a software engineer before becoming an appsec redteamer in 2018, but has been hacking all the things since high school.