Becoming a Caido Power User
Justin Gardner
Bug Bounty Village @ DEF CON 33 · Day 1 · Bug Bounty Village
In this insightful presentation, Justin Gardner, a prominent bug bounty hunter, podcast host, and adviser for Caido, takes the stage to illuminate how security researchers can transform into "Caido power users." The talk centers on Caido, an advanced HTTP proxy designed to be a seamless extension of the hacker, aiming to reduce friction and enhance efficiency in understanding applications and implementing attack vectors. Gardner, a fervent daily user of Caido even before his advisory role, passionately asserts its revolutionary impact on his hacking methodology and success.
AI review
Competent tool walkthrough from someone who clearly lives in Caido daily — the Google RPC ID mapping case study alone is worth something, and the HTTPQL query examples are concrete enough to be immediately actionable. But this is a vendor-adjacent feature demo, not research, and the 'defensive implications' section reads like GPT filler bolted onto a sales deck.