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From: Dave Aitel <dave () kof immunityinc com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:20:37 -0400
You forget, if you are lucky enough to spend all your time in the same office with "Senior Security Researchers" ( or traveling to conferences as some of us do) that many hackers at conferences have not met another hacker face to face in a long time. Face to face is very high bandwidth communication - much higher than the encrypted IRC most of us are used to. But it's great being able to spend, say, two fulls days talking to Marc * Schönefel*. His talk goes deeply over the process for creating undx, but creating the process that can with a high level of certainty reverse the binaries so you can analyze them for security issues is probably more central to his talk, and to his current "study" as a researcher. I.E. The following kinds of problems (virtual functions, optimizations) are what you're likely to find in a bytecode language. Here's how you develop the process to write code to reverse them. Now how do you optimize that process? Of course, Marc also likes to slip in various extremely geeky jokes into his conversation, almost as a test. Lots of the hackers do this - it's the initial handshake to the almost homogenous hacker language of unrestricted blasphemy. Tommorow I'm doing shellcode training with the web app again. You can teach almost anyone how to write buffer overflows, but a lifelong dedication to irreverance is harder, and without that. . . -dave
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