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I cannot wait for the accompanying Black Hat talk. Christopher Domas is one of my absolute favorite all-time hackers. He does such a fantastic job of explaining

I cannot wait for the accompanying Black Hat talk. Christopher Domas is one of my absolute favorite all-time hackers. He does such a fantastic job of explaining his work. Some of my favorite talks of his: - Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUe0TUHOIc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUe0TUHOIc - The MoVfuscator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7EEoWg6Ekk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7EEoWg6Ekk - Hardware Backdoors in redacted x86 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmTwlEh8L7g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmTwlEh8L7g

Hasz 2mo ago
If this is the same dude I am thinking of, his wife is also the CISO of Mozilla and do security research together, afair they have a whole book on x86 reverse engineering. Very cool!
- Intermernet 2mo ago
  x86 Software Reverse‐Engineering, Cracking, and Counter‐Measures By Stephanie Domas and Christopher Domas https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781394277131 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/97813942771...
jambalaya8 2mo ago
His stuff is something else.
nerdsniper 2mo ago
My introduction to his work was "The future of RE Dynamic Binary Visualization"[0] which completely blew me away. It still feels futuristic today, 13 years later. Novel UI/UX paradigms like this are slow to find widespread adoption, even when they're so clearly demonstrated to be such an ideal fit for their purpose. 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM3Gut1hIk&pp=ygURY2hyaXN0b3BoZXIgZG9tYXM%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM3Gut1hIk&pp=ygURY2hyaXN0b...
- anthk 2mo ago
  TBH with the DDD debugger you had a graph with the C structures right away.
- superkuh 2mo ago
  I love digraphs. I learned about them from that talk's associated paper... but only about 2 years ago. I've been dumping my system and GPU RAM raw and visualizing via digraphs and it's amazing how such a simple algorithm operating on arbitrary bytes leads to such distinct and consistent image.
ChocMontePy 2mo ago
I saw a recent video and I was shocked that he had hair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOq8O_phwbA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOq8O_phwbA He looks so different.
saagarjha 2mo ago
> He does such a fantastic job of explaining his work. He did a fantastic job of explaining his work.
- dgellow 2mo ago
  What do you mean? Did he pass away?
  - saagarjha 2mo ago
    His way of explaining things clearly seems to have done so
  - teach 2mo ago
    The explanation that appears in this repo seems largely LLM-generated. It's punchy, to be sure, but I wouldn't call it CLEAR I had to look at the comments here to understand what was going on So maybe he USED to explain things well, but that's not on display
    - dgellow 2mo ago
      His talks are pretty good, I think that’s what people meant. But yeah, the readmes are really hard to follow and feel very ai generated too
  - deleted 2mo ago
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3abiton 2mo ago
Alright, a new series to binge now.

Hasz 2mo ago

If this is the same dude I am thinking of, his wife is also the CISO of Mozilla and do security research together, afair they have a whole book on x86 reverse engineering. Very cool!

Intermernet 2mo ago
x86 Software Reverse‐Engineering, Cracking, and Counter‐Measures By Stephanie Domas and Christopher Domas https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781394277131 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/97813942771...

jambalaya8 2mo ago

His stuff is something else.

nerdsniper 2mo ago

My introduction to his work was "The future of RE Dynamic Binary Visualization"[0] which completely blew me away. It still feels futuristic today, 13 years later. Novel UI/UX paradigms like this are slow to find widespread adoption, even when they're so clearly demonstrated to be such an ideal fit for their purpose. 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM3Gut1hIk&pp=ygURY2hyaXN0b3BoZXIgZG9tYXM%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM3Gut1hIk&pp=ygURY2hyaXN0b...

anthk 2mo ago
TBH with the DDD debugger you had a graph with the C structures right away.
superkuh 2mo ago
I love digraphs. I learned about them from that talk's associated paper... but only about 2 years ago. I've been dumping my system and GPU RAM raw and visualizing via digraphs and it's amazing how such a simple algorithm operating on arbitrary bytes leads to such distinct and consistent image.

ChocMontePy 2mo ago

I saw a recent video and I was shocked that he had hair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOq8O_phwbA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOq8O_phwbA He looks so different.

saagarjha 2mo ago

> He does such a fantastic job of explaining his work. He did a fantastic job of explaining his work.

dgellow 2mo ago
What do you mean? Did he pass away?
- saagarjha 2mo ago
  His way of explaining things clearly seems to have done so
- teach 2mo ago
  The explanation that appears in this repo seems largely LLM-generated. It's punchy, to be sure, but I wouldn't call it CLEAR I had to look at the comments here to understand what was going on So maybe he USED to explain things well, but that's not on display
  - dgellow 2mo ago
    His talks are pretty good, I think that’s what people meant. But yeah, the readmes are really hard to follow and feel very ai generated too
- deleted 2mo ago
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3abiton 2mo ago

Alright, a new series to binge now.