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DEF CON 23 - Chris Domas - Repsych: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering

Chris Domas's DEF CON 23 talk on psychological warfare against reverse engineers. He builds code whose disassembly and control flow graphs mislead, intimidate and demoralize anyone analyzing it.

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as an entertaining and well-explained talk on anti-reverse-engineering tricks.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
DEFCONConference
Topic
reverse engineering
Format
talk
Level
advanced
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
7
Recommendation years in dataset
2016–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Makes me think of what might deter a reverse engineer and then this most awesome youtube talk on psychological warfare by Chris Domas [VIDEO] It's so good.

    MrQuincle on Hacker News · 2021-09
    In JSFuck (2012)
  • 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 [VIDEO] - The …

    MattSteelblade on Hacker News · 2026-08
    In Spaghettifying DRAM
  • Saw this recently after reviewing some Defcon 23 videos. The author goes into detail about how it's working and some other fun stuff regarding anti-reverse-engineering. 2015 DEFCON 23 - Chris Domas - Repsych: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering [VIDEO] And a paper by him: [LINK]

    projectdp on Hacker News · 2016-08
    In Movfuscator – A single-instruction C compiler

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