Waves of Chaos: From Rogue Signals to The Supervillain Scenario - Tom Van de Wiele
Disobey 2026 · Main Stage
Tom Van de Wiele's Disobey talk, "Waves of Chaos: From Rogue Signals to The Supervillain Scenario," delves into the alarming potential for low-cost, high-impact disruptive attacks that can cripple critical infrastructure and societal functions. Drawing parallels from historical pranks to modern cyber threats, Van de Wiele, an offensive security researcher, argues that many of these "black swan" events are not only possible but are becoming increasingly accessible, yet remain largely unaddressed by conventional security testing and governmental preparedness.
AI review
Van de Wiele covers a genuinely interesting attack surface — low-cost physical-layer disruption, SDR abuse, cloud DDoS weaponization against your own SaaS stack — and his framing around 'illegality as the only defense' is a point worth making loudly. The problem is this reads more like a curated threat catalog than a research presentation: lots of 'I tested this in my lab' without the lab work surfacing in any reproducible or novel form.