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mahal0z.bsky.social
Native Hawaiian Hacker | Prev Co-captain of @Shellphish | PhD Student in Comp Sci @ASU l Decompiler Research | https://mahaloz.re
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What does it mean to be a hacker? This semester, I taught a hacker history and culture class, which was a blast. In one assignment, my students paid tribute to the classic @phrack Pro-Phile -- a small bio on a famous hacker. Check out their pieces: cse194.mahaloz.re/pr...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I'm proud to announce that myself and @AtipriyaBajaj have created the Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering (SURE), which will be co-located at CCS 2025. sure-workshop.org/ Please follow our workshop account @sureworkshop and RT it for visibility :).

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

New updates to the Decompilation Wiki by harpend (on GitHub). We have a new in-depth Switch structuring section and a new Loop Reduction section. decompilation.wiki/f...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

If you are looking for my slides from my Reverse talk, you can find it and useful artifacts here: github.com/mahaloz/t...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Heard a lot of people wondering how good RE//Verse would be, and I can say... It's been awesome. Similar in vibe to Infiltrate and OffensiveCon, plus a super positive hosting crew. Great talks so far, I'm biased but really liked @mahal0z.bsky.social 's on improving decompilation ⛵

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

2024 was a significant year for decompilation, constituting a possible resurgence in the field. Major talks, the thirty-year anniversary of research, movements in AI, and an all-time high for top publications in decompilation. Join me for a retrospective: mahaloz.re/dec-progr...

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

Set sail into the rocky seas of compiler optimizations! Zion Basque (@mahal0z.bsky.social) explores how optimizations wreak havoc on decompilers and how to reverse them. Learn about the new angr decompiler & innovations to tackle ugly decompilations! https://re-verse.sessionize.com/session/776160

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

Whether it be IDA, Ghidra, or Binja, we've all encountered lousy decompilation, even in the simplest of programs. A large culprit? Compiler optimizations! However, not all opts are equal, and many are reversible. Interested in how/why? Come to my talk at @REverseConf next month!

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

New in DAILA, an AI-integrated decompiler plugin, v3.15.0, support for custom endpoints was added by @pc944. Check it out: github.com/mahaloz/D...

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

Hello world!

submitted 176 days ago • 3 comments