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SystemTap mentions (3)

• What are some tools to create code diagrams/graphs/(static or dynamic) call graphs when analyzing c++ code? Any level of automation would be useful here, but manual editing is also preferred. I see Visual Studio Code Graph but this is an option for Windows mainly. Doxygen, perftools?

  Eclipse seems to have a Callgraph plug-in (for execution traces), although it is based on SystemTap, which is only for Linux. Source: about 1 year ago

• Valve Did the IMPOSSIBLE... Anti-Cheat on Linux - WAN Show September 24, 2021

  They can use DKMS or their own version of systemtap so not they don't have to release the code. Source: over 2 years ago

• Frozenbyte are now telling Linux users to use Proton, even for their older games

  Since these are kernel anticheats I don't know how they're going to make it work though. Maybe BE and EAC will ship signed code that Valve lets run outside of the Win32 environment, possibly just as the root user or with their own version of systemtap to get into the kernel. Source: almost 3 years ago

Ghidra mentions (64)

• I've figured out what 13 of the 16 enemy flags mean in Ultima V. Help me figure out the last three.

  I've got no experience with reverse-engineering executables, but I got a bunch of code-like stuff showing up when I fed ULTIMA.EXE to Ghidra and told it to analyze it with all the flags set. Source: 12 months ago

• Modding SH2

  The whole game is written in C++ (game logic intertwined with graphics). Ghidra can help you deconstruct the game binaries, but you need to put in a GREAT great effort to even get a starting point. Cheat Engine has been successful for some purposes, including an AI enabling utility for multiplayer (use with great care!). Source: 12 months ago

• You have probably heard of Temu right?

  What I think you’re talking about is reverse engineering. It’s basically taking a program and analysing the compiled code to attempt to find out how it works. It’s a fairly expansive topic, and fairly tricky to do but look at anything to do with Ghidra to get started. Source: about 1 year ago

• Asking for clarification ... How is learning C beneficial for becoming a Cyber security expert

  Oh also just as an aside Ghidra is a really cool free tool developed by the NSA which can reverse engineer software by looking at its executable and recreating the C code from the instructions and static data within. It's another way to get familiarized with the relationship between C code and the instructions it compiles to. Source: about 1 year ago

• Super Smash Bros. Melee HD Port Will "Never Happen," According to Former Nintendo Employees

  There exist decompilers and other tools for helping make sense of assembly and that can automate some of the conversion back to higher level languages. In my brief involvement with Slippi I used Ghidra - a tool developed by the NSA, to do some of that kind of work, which I found a little amusing. Source: about 1 year ago