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Felten on fingerprinting blank paper
Ed Felten posted last week about his upcoming publication on fingerprinting techniques for blank paper. This is a great paper with practical applications. It reminded me to discuss some of the fundame… more →
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Piracy and unconventional wisdom
Imraan Moosa wrote 1 month ago: This is an interesting article I picked up along my way one evening while I was browsing the web and … more →
Felten on fingerprinting blank paper
Nate Lawson wrote 3 months ago: Ed Felten posted last week about his upcoming publication on fingerprinting techniques for blank pap … more →
Xbox 360 security talk
Nate Lawson wrote 10 months ago: This recent video of Michael Steil and Felix Domke talking about the Xbox 360 security scheme is the … more →
Hacker or hooker?
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Nate Lawson wrote 11 months ago: Well-funded and motivated attackers are typically the hardest to defend against when designing a sys … more →
Interview about DRM on Security Focus
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Nate Lawson wrote 1 year ago: Security Focus just posted this interview of me, talking about DRM. Here are a few choice quotes. O … more →
Anti-debugging: using up a resource versus checking it
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Nate Lawson wrote 1 year ago: After my last post claiming anti-debugging techniques are overly depended on, various people asked h … more →
Are single-purpose devices the solution to malware?
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Nate Lawson wrote 1 year ago: I recently watched this fascinating talk by Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet … more →
Designing and Attacking DRM talk slides
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Nate Lawson wrote 1 year ago: I gave a talk this morning at RSA 2008 on “Designing and Attacking DRM” (pdf of slides). … more →
Wii hacking and the Freeloader
Nate Lawson wrote 1 year ago: tmbinc wrote a great post describing the history of hacking the Wii and why certain holes were not p … more →
Apple iPhone bootloader attack
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Nate Lawson wrote 1 year ago: News and details of the first iPhone bootloader hack appeared today. My analysis of the publicly-av … more →
Memory remanence attack analysis
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Nate Lawson wrote 1 year ago: You have probably heard by now of the memory remanence attack by Halderman et al. They show that it … more →
C64 25th anniversary event
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Nate Lawson wrote 1 year ago: Next Monday, December 10th, I will be at the Computer History museum to hear a panel discussing the … more →
Trapping access to debug registers
Nate Lawson wrote 1 year ago: If you’re designing or attacking a software protection scheme, the debug registers are a great … more →
C64 screen memory and anti-debugging
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Nate Lawson wrote 1 year ago: I think it’s fun to stir your creativity periodically by analyzing old software protection sch … more →
DRM is passive and active
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Nate Lawson wrote 1 year ago: In a post regarding DRM (based on another post), Alun Jones of Microsoft says: “Passive DRM pr … more →
Mesh design pattern: error correction
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Nate Lawson wrote 1 year ago: Our previous mesh design pattern, hash-and-decrypt, requires the attacker either to run the system t … more →
Anti-debugging techniques of the past
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Nate Lawson wrote 2 years ago: During the C64 and Apple II years, a number of interesting protection schemes were developed that st … more →
Reverse engineering with a VM
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Nate Lawson wrote 2 years ago: In a previous comment, Tim Newsham mentions reverse engineering an application by running it in a VM … more →
Anti-debugger techniques are overrated
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Nate Lawson wrote 2 years ago: Most protection schemes include various anti-debugger techniques. They can be as simple as IsDebugg … more →
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