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

DEFCONConference · 173K views · 2015-12-25 · 38:49

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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.

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

Recommended by 4 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2016–2026

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MattSteelblade · 2026-08 · Strong recommendation

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 MoVfuscator [LINK] - Hardware Backdoors in redacted x86 [LINK]

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MrQuincle · 2021-09 · Strong recommendation

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.

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projectdp · 2016-08 · Recommendation

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]

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