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by nekitamo 3y ago
I stumbled on the idea of Program Synthesis when I was looking to solve VMProtect's Mixed-Boolean-Arithmetic (MBA) expressions in my own VMP Decompiler. I tried experimenting with this project but had limited success: https:/&#x2
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by nekitamo 3y ago
Reverse engineering was and is a lot of fun! If anything its grown in demand, you just have to make sure you’re doing reverse engineering for where the demand is. Same skills, different targets :)
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by nekitamo 3y ago
I’m glad someone preserved these tutorials. I was focused on cracking Safedisc games at the time, and even wrote some Safedisc/Safecast tutorials myself. I never had the skills to crack Securom though, respect to Human and Deroko and t
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by nekitamo 3y ago
There were also large layoffs in Google’s ad sales org today, but I haven’t seen any news articles about it.
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by nekitamo 3y ago
Have you tried SingleFile? It sounds like what you’re looking for: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
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by nekitamo 3y ago
Your blog is deeply moving, thank you for posting the link. When my time comes, I hope I accept it with the equanimity and grace you display.
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by nekitamo 3y ago
The same crops can be grown cheaply elsewhere. Artificially subsidizing California agriculture with unsustainably cheap water undercuts growers in other markets. Stop giving insanely cheap water to large growers with inefficient water usage
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by nekitamo 3y ago
Residential areas are not to blame for California's water mismanagement. Agriculture with corruption are.
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by nekitamo 3y ago
Numerous historians have shown that strategic bombing was counterproductive for three reasons: 1) It rallied civilian morale to side with the government. People were aggrieved that they were being bombed, and it stiffened their resistance a
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by nekitamo 3y ago
I love this tool, but the AGPL license means I cannot use it at work due to company policies. I'm sympathetic and understand the author's reasoning for relicensing it under the AGPL, but I wonder how much that holds back adoption,
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by nekitamo 3y ago
It's even the same journalist as the previous sensationalist story: Jordan Robertson. - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h... - https://siliconangle.com/2018&#x2
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by nekitamo 3y ago
China and Huawei are extremely sketchy and have committed all sorts of corruption and theft. They deserve to be viewed with suspicion and sanctioned. That doesn’t make this story true though. Particularly when you consider how discredited t
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by nekitamo 3y ago
I'm no fan of China or Huawei (quite the opposite in fact), but I'd like to pause and inject a dose of skepticism into the conversation. Bloomberg's previous piece about China installing tiny chips onto server hardware to spy
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by nekitamo 3y ago
Legislating away discount buyers would be like legislating away payday lenders. The only thing accomplished would be to leave a hole in the market which will be filled by shady loan sharks.
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by nekitamo 4y ago
In infosec the hours are long, morale is fatalist, but at least the pay is good and jobs are plentiful. You have to make sure you manage your relationship with your job carefully, or you will burn out as the author did.
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by nekitamo 4y ago
You might be interested in this website which archives those old intros, and showcases new ones: https://www.pouet.net/
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by nekitamo 4y ago
They have Go and Rust disassemblers as well. The Go one is interesting because it shows the Go IR.
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by nekitamo 4y ago
Just as a backend is not a desktop application, so to will "backend piracy" differ from desktop app piracy. You can't think of them in the same terms. Whereas a crack of a desktop app will allow users to "misuse" th
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by nekitamo 4y ago
I use VMs when reverse engineering malware.
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by nekitamo 4y ago
This. American policy leaders have said they expect at least a year before the bite of sanctions is felt economically. It's too early to comment on their efficacy.
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by nekitamo 5y ago
By squeezing out hobbyists and individuals, they're shooting themselves in the foot over the long term. The only reason any corporation I worked for purchased IDA Pro licenses was because I recommended it. The only reason I recommended
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by nekitamo 5y ago
I've been a customer since ~2010, and have been paying out of my personal pocket the $469 / year support renewal for a standard IDA Pro named license, which I've carried with me through various jobs in my career. The new subs
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by nekitamo 5y ago
It’s a shame that the Play framework is being abandoned. v1 had a lot of great ideas, but v2 kind of jumped off the cliff into Scala lala-land, where it got lost in the weeds. It never really recovered. If you’re looking for a straightforwa
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by nekitamo 6y ago
Yeah I feel that there are are still good disassemblers available for RE, but debuggers have really fallen behind. Especially on non x86 architectures, the best you’re going to find is GDB/LLDB, which is a far cry from Softice and Olly
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by nekitamo 6y ago
Evan’s debugger gets you most of the way there: https://github.com/eteran/edb-debugger You have to build from source but it’s easy to do. I’m thinking of devoting a summer to writing an Ollydbg-like UI wrapper for LLDB
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by nekitamo 6y ago
Go read the Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. Then go automate your investments as much as possible and don't touch them.
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by nekitamo 7y ago
The book is good and it explains stuff very well. It can be a bit dense in the beginning, if you're looking for a gentler introduction look at the Lena151 tutorials I linked to elsewhere in this thread. Ultimately reverse engineering i
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by nekitamo 7y ago
This looks like a great resource for beginners, albeit a bit dense and overwhelming. If you're looking for a very gentle introduction the Lena151 video tutorials are great: https://tuts4you.com/e107_plugins/downloa
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by nekitamo 7y ago
https://stripe.com/partners/fundingcircle I’ve used it for my bootstrapped company, works great.
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by nekitamo 7y ago
One example is the story of the sons of John Kerry and Joe Biden partnering together to form a private equity fund which received money from the Chinese government, and then using that money to acquire strategically sensitive assets, in som

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