Connections

[Dave Aitel <dave () kof immunityinc com>]

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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