Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)

the def con talk (2015) was enjoyable to watch if you want to kill ~40 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUe0TUHOIc

Reminds me of Iain M Banks’s Feersum Endjinn, where the castle resisted investigation by leveraging its smart fabric to hurl ghosts at the workers trying to drill out its walls!

- i dont understand, can someone explain what this does

RE tools like IDA or Ghidra can generate a control flow graph (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-flow_graph) for a function found in the target binary

this tool generates functions that show up as an image when rendered like that