Did you ever wonder where the term "opaque predicate" comes from? Well, the story involves Konrad Zuse, Niklaus Wirth, Xerox Park, and a Swede with a limited understanding of the English language: tigress.wtf/blog.html

Does anyone know of server farms that support various platforms? Like, I want 10 VMs running MIPS/Linux, another 10 running x86_64/Windows, etc? Think: where do I run millions of tests for my compiler on all architecture/OS combinations?

Announcing the Grand Reverse Engineering Challenge, starting May 21, with a $10,000 total prize sum! Challenges are protected by tools from U Arizona, Ghent U, and Cloakware/Irdeto. See grand-re-challenge.org.

We have a postdoc position available in Computer Security Education at the U of Arizona. An interest in Reverse Engineering, Program Analysis, or Compilers would be perfect. Please forward! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

We have a software engineering position open at U Arizona to work on tigress.wtf. Please pass this along to anyone with a background in one or more of Reverse Engineering, Security, Functional Programming, Program Analysis, or Compilers! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

Grand Reverse Engineering Challenge update: We have received attack attempts but no correct solutions! Round 1 is extended until June 30, and Round 2 (with simpler challenges!) starts July 1. Encourage your students & colleagues to participate to win $10k! grand-re-challenge.org

Round 2 of the $10,000 Grand Reverse Engineering Challenge is now up! 3 new binaries with less protection than the difficult Round 1 challenges. grand-re-challenge.org. Deadline is July 18. Please RT!

Congrats to Li Xusheng (xusheng.dev) for winning the $5,000 1st price in the Grand Reverse Engineering Challenge (grand-re-challenge.org) and to Varun Iyer for winning the $2,000 2nd price!

I will have a PhD position available in the fall. Looking for someone with a background in compilers and/or reverse engineering.

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Right now: patriotic WWII movie on Russia’s Channel 1. 🇺🇦

No demos yet on Pushkin square but a ton of police in riot gear. They picked up two guys and threw them in a bus. The entire square is protected by crowd control barriers. Felt like there were lots of people just kind of milling about waiting for something to happen. 🇺🇦

Looking for a Postdoc with interests in some combination of: security, data analysis, reverse engineering, and security education.

Масяня, as always, says it best: youtube.com/watch?v=Y4lOd3…. Это пипец.

Computer Science at the University of Arizona is hiring: cra.org/job/university…

To learn more about reverse engineering and software protection or to include such topics in your courses, check out LigerLabs, ligerlabs.org: 28 lecture modules, each with a ~20 minute video, slides, in-class exercises, and take-home assignments. Support: NSF/SATC/EDU.