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Johannes Willbold
Personal blog · jwillbold.com/postssecurityprogramming
Johannes Willbold's personal blog at jwillbold.com covers security and programming. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Secret Guide To Virualization Obfuscation In JavaScript”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited for reverse engineering and VM obfuscation, including a post on TikTok's VM obfuscation and the rusty-jsyc tool. Another linked comment discusses CubeSat and Raspberry Pi security in space.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal web page of Johannes Willbold, Co-Founder of Variant Security and space security researcher.
Most-linked posts?
- The Secret Guide To Virualization Obfuscation In JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-18
What Hacker News says?
> ...so how do you keep it secure? > Is hosting a RPi in space different from hosting one on the ground, reachable over the public internet? I assume it is, but tell me more! It is somewhat different from a security point of view, but the gap between them is getting smaller. The main "obstacle" to hackers taking over your satellite is that it is somewhat difficult to set up a UHF/VHF/S-band ground station with enoug…
Comment linking /paper/willbold2023spaceodyssey.pdf
on “CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space”Submitted The Secret Guide to Virtualization Obfuscation in JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBased on my previous research into this, the magic keywords to find this kind of thing on Google are "virtualization obfuscation" or "VM obfuscation". rusty-jsyc is the main open source implementation I've found, though it hasn't been touched in a few years: https://jwillbold.com/posts/obfuscation/2019-06-16-the-secre... (GitHub: https://github.com/jwillbold/rusty-jsyc ) I think there are other implementations, but…
Comment linking /posts/obfuscation/2019-06-16-the-secret-guide-to-virtualization-obfuscation-in-javascript/
on “Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation (Part 1)”Submitted The Secret Guide To Virualization Obfuscation In JavaScript as a story · 1 points
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