A Programmer's Perspective on Reverse Engineering

Presented at Summercon 2017, June 24, 2017, noon (50 minutes).

A programmer who has been reverse engineering for nearly 30 years looks at one recent discovery and one old "I told you so" and concludes to no great surprise that programmers want to understand the software and avoid the bugs but security research is mostly about finding the bugs without understanding the software. Perhaps something significant for each side gets missed in between.

Presenters:

• Geoff Chappell
  Geoff Chappell is the author of the Windows programming resource at www.geoffchappell.com, of some articles for Poc||GTFO, and long ago of the book "DOS Internals". He has been reverse engineering since before many attendees were born. He developed it to be a better programmer but he occasionally moonlights as a security researcher. Some years he does well from being a bit of both. Others he can't get work as either. geoffchappell.com

Links:

• https://www.summercon.org/archives/2017/presentations.html#programmers-perspective

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• ToorCon: Seattle 2008 / Reverse Engineering Cookbook
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