Recon 2006
Ero Carrera (ero) <erocarreragmailcom> Thursday, June 22 2006 02:49.00 CDT


Last weekend I had the pleasure of assisting to the reverse engineering conference Recon in Montreal. Recon has probably been one of the best events I had the luck to assist to so far. The quality of the speakers was really high and the people assisting were incredible. The whole event was very well organized, with no hiccups.
I had many really enjoyable talks and met great people.

Regarding the talks I specially enjoyed Bunies Disassembling And Patching Hardware. I did study electronics some years back, although never to the level of what Bunnie was showing. I found the talk really interesting.
Alex Ionescus Subverting Windows 2003 SP1 Kernel Integrity Protection was tremendously informative too, going really deep into w2k3 protection mechanisms.
Skypes talk by Fabrice Desclaux and Kostya Kortchinsky was truly amusing, they really took apart every single part of Skype.
Spoonm showcased IDARub, now Ruby lovers have a tool as good as IDAPython, if not better. IDARubs network support is something that IDAPython will surely catch up with soon.
Pedram Amini released PaiMei(download), a tool that surely will be talked about a lot. A full reverse engineering framework in Python. It really looked mighty powerful.

Also, I ended up cooking up two quick (ended up being not-so-quick) turbo-talks; Win32 Static  Analysis In Python showing two Python modules I wrote a while ago pefile and pydasm and Unpacking Birds Eye View showing some results on tracing unpackers using some internal tools. More on that last one on another post...




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