4 2 1 Christopher Domas The future of RE Dynamic Binary Visualization

Why HN readers recommended it

Regarded as one of the coolest talks ever, with a futuristic binary visualization demo that has inspired later tools.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Adrian Crenshaw

Topic

binary visualization

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

7

HN mentions in dataset

14

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• You might want to have a look at Bossard's presentation from defcon20 (2012?), "Hardware backdooring is possible": [LINK] He's done a few of these, so I might be getting them mixed up -- but the message is basically that x86 (and by extension amd64) is …

• Like CantorDust by Christopher Domas@Batelle? [VIDEO] really blew my mind when I saw it. Btw. about 8 years later they finally delivered, by releasing it as plug-in for Ghidra! Yay! [LINK]

• Also came up with the original ..cantor.dust.. binary visualization tool, which is a tool I never used directly but Chris' presentation of it in 2012 is still one of the coolest talks I've ever seen. [0] [LINK] [1] [VIDEO]