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2026 3

  1. Three important steps in my maturation process
  2. RL economics, morally charged terms, and "distillation"
  3. Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits

2025 7

  1. Ask your LLM for receipts: What I learned teaching Claude C++ crash triage
  2. Understand Neural Nets better, post 5 of N -- Code Assistant shootout
  3. A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
  4. Some experiments to help me understand Neural Nets better, post 4 of N
  5. Some experiments to help me understand Neural Nets better, post 3 of N
  6. Some experiments to help me understand Neural Nets better, post 2 of N
  7. The German debt brake is stupid!

2024 4

  1. What I want for Christmas for the EU startup ecosystem
  2. Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition)
  3. Some experiments to help me understand Neural Nets better, post 1 of N
  4. The end of my Elastic/optimyze journey ...

2023 1

  1. A list of factors that act(ed) as drag on the European Tech/Startup scene

2021 1

  1. Book Review: "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends"

2020 4

  1. The missing OS
  2. My Twitter-Discussion-Deescalation Policy
  3. My self-help guide to making sense of a confusing world
  4. Before you ship a "security mitigation" ...

2019 1

  1. Rashomon of disclosure

2018 3

  1. Turing completeness, weird machines, Twitter, and muddled terminology
  2. A bank statement for app activity (and thus personal data)
  3. Two small notes on the "malicious use of AI" report

2017 1

  1. A quick post on Wikipedia-scrubbing and a historical document on binary diffing

2016 3

  1. "Why do you work in security instead of something more lasting ?"
  2. Essays about management in large(r) organisations (1): Process and flexibility
  3. An attempt at fixing Wassenaar

2015 3

  1. Open-Source BinNavi ... and fREedom
  2. A decisionmaker's guide to buying security appliances and gateways
  3. Why changes to Wassenaar make oppression and surveillance easier, not harder

2014 2

  1. Full-packet-capture society - and how to avoid it
  2. Why Intelligence Reform is necessary

2013 3

  1. Analogies, Piracy, Attribution, and the law of unintended consequences
  2. Congratulations Marion !
  3. Encouraging female reverse engineers

2012 1

  1. The Euro Crisis and Germany - or "The tale of the shoemaker, the baker, and his wife"

2011 2

  1. Short note on static analysis and lobbying
  2. Wow ...

2010 3

  1. Trainings class with SP and me at CSW !
  2. Tax evasion and welfare fraud
  3. The new, shiny, reverse-engineering-centric zynamics blog !

2009 17

  1. Interesting Blog Posts
  2. Clarification to the previous post
  3. Why are most researchers not a fan of standards on "responsible disclosure"
  4. Low blogging frequency
  5. Looking for Memoryze dumps of malware
  6. Adventures in choosing what to vote
  7. Restaurant Review: "Le Surfing", Les Estagnots
  8. Open position :-)
  9. Klartext please !
  10. Poking around MSVIDCTL.DLL
  11. Las Vegas / Blackhat / DefCon
  12. Strange Cellphone Behavior
  13. Reverse Engineering / Bug hunting trainings in Amsterdam
  14. Diffing x86 vs ARM code
  15. Washington DC, Trainings, Demos :-)
  16. Correction: Clam *does* have some unpacking support
  17. ClamAV and unpackers

2008 34

  1. TAOSSA blog post I didn't see but will comment on :-)
  2. Sometimes, diffing can remove obfuscation (albeit rarely)
  3. A good protocol attack ...
  4. BinDiff / BinNavi User Forum
  5. Malicious Office/PDFs
  6. BinNavi v2 and PHP !
  7. German ways of expressing optimism
  8. The joys of the Volkswagen Caddy Natural Gas car
  9. For those playing with the printer bug...
  10. My bro's comments on the financial crisis
  11. A few things I forgot to mention :-)
  12. Improving Binary Comparison (and it's implication for malware classification)
  13. My 100th blog post and why my blog
  14. I think everybody should read fxs
  15. Few short notes on whats being reported
  16. On dans request for no speculation
  17. Blogspam advanced reverse engineering
  18. Hey all googles entire business model
  19. All this dns
  20. Security book that id like to see
  21. Re db database format for storing
  22. Intuition experience and value of
  23. Travelling dopplr btw how many people
  24. Zynamics canada tour complex analysis
  25. Theres lot of hoopla in german media
  26. Patch obfuscation etc
  27. I have not been blogging nor following
  28. My valued coworker sp has just released
  29. Oh before i forget ero me will be
  30. Conspiracy theory of day as everyone i
  31. Short real life story on why
  32. Hey all we have released binnavi v1
  33. Hey all we will be releasing binnavi v1
  34. Happy new year everyone

2007 17

  1. Our trainings class in frankfurt is
  2. Blackhat japan after immigration snafu
  3. Bindiff v2
  4. I am quite famous for botching every
  5. I have reached intellectual level of
  6. So it appears entire rutkowska matasano
  7. Some people in comments of my blog have
  8. Short update i have managed to schedule
  9. Ive been denied entry to us essentially
  10. Core guys have published paper on very
  11. It seems that this country is spinning
  12. Ms07 031 were close to finally
  13. Microsoft seems to consider banning
  14. Can someone explain me why there is so
  15. I will be at blackhat federal in
  16. I would like to use this blog to make
  17. One of most amusing new features of

2006 47

  1. Sps blog has good post today
  2. Over at matasano blog matasano s blog
  3. Unbelievable but true i am
  4. Client side exploits lot of office
  5. While were all talking about next
  6. While i am blogging about strange
  7. I am known for odd hobbies and
  8. Matasano refers to bleichenbachers
  9. After all brouhaha surrounding work on
  10. Now with all this noise surrounding
  11. Just to clarify paimei is really good
  12. From matasano results of one trace can
  13. Security world never ceases to amaze
  14. I will have 8 hour layover in toronto
  15. Article at this link is bit funny but
  16. I know that i am going to draw hate of
  17. Question for blogosphere does anyone
  18. This ebay posting for yacht that was
  19. I used to read security blogs via
  20. On bug disclosure and contact with
  21. I really enjoyed reading ilfaks blog
  22. Compression statistics and such in
  23. Some shameless self promotion rolf and
  24. Extra extra googlesun discover
  25. My prediction for next two years apple
  26. Msasn1 is hard to read these days code
  27. Vodafone virus dropped by today and
  28. Quote from lock stock and two smoking
  29. For those that are into malware
  30. Behavioural classification of malware
  31. Microsofts built in firewall has some
  32. Important german saying wer keine
  33. More on automated malware
  34. Also rolf has created shockwave where
  35. Automated classification of malware is
  36. I am in state of brainfry
  37. Quote from matasano blog we are so
  38. Language in thought and action or
  39. Httpteh win
  40. Publication economics and cryptography
  41. Httpmetasploit
  42. My latest travel madness is over and
  43. My travel schedule remains insane and
  44. We at sabre will be giving 3 day
  45. History is important
  46. Hans dobbertin died of cancer on 2nd
  47. My schedule in next weeks sucks

2005 10

  1. Microsoft is moving gui code back out
  2. Blogging is strange
  3. Allright i have 8 minutes of free time
  4. One of lectures i am attending algebra
  5. My procrastination skills have reached
  6. Running business while going to
  7. There seems to be some odd blog war
  8. I have to admit i really enjoy reading
  9. Reverse engineering c code is always
  10. For those of you that speak german