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Below is a round up of some of my work at the Software Engineering Institute investigating secure coding in Rust and the security of the Rust ecosystem in terms of vulnerability analysis and reverse engineering work. Read more
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Below is a round up of some of my work at the Software Engineering Institute with Ghidra and developing automated tools for reverse engineering and static code analysis, particularly with an eye toward malware analysis. Read more
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My local library recently ended a pretty big sale; most of its books were sold for about $0.25 each. Many of the books were technical (though introductory level): programming, mathematics, sciences. But there was also a good amount of history and fiction available. I love books and snatched up a bunch, but I did so with a heavy heart at seeing so much knowledge being given up by a place of a learning – particularly when many of the shelves that used to hold books now hold DVDs. Read more
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Recently, in online communities and forums, and even professional organizations like ACM, I’ve been seeing an argument that the GNU General Public License (GPL) is restrictive, while more liberal licenses like the BSD and MIT licenses are “more free”. A recent column in April 2016’s Communications of the ACM repeated this obviously misunderstood statement with a pretty aggressive attack on the GPL. Read more