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NateLawson

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Root Labs (currently): consultant for design and analysis of embedded and kernel security, cryptography, and reverse engineering. https://rootlabs.com

Past companies:

- SourceDNA (founder): a web service that scanned binaries from the app stores, identifying the tools and libraries they were built with. We notified developers about security issues and tracked the market share of SDKs and developer tools.

- Cryptography Research (engineer): self-protecting digital content, differential power analysis, tamper resistance for ASICs. So many stories.

  1. Hints and Principles for Computer System Design (2020 Version) (arxiv.org)
    3 points 1
  2. SourceDNA seeks lead UI engineer to visualize the code in millions of apps

    SourceDNA is generating an amazing data feed, revealing the secrets in the binary code of every app in the app stores. Our backend team has built an automated reverse engineering monster and is looking for a frontend…

    1 points 0 job
  3. A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 3: Case Studies in Copy Protection (filfre.net)
    63 points 19
  4. Sequence the code in millions of apps at SourceDNA (YC S15) (sourcedna.com)
    1 points 0 job
  5. SourceDNA (YC S15) is looking for customer advocates to help mobile developers (sourcedna.com)
    1 points 0 job
  6. Help developers track the code in their apps at SourceDNA (YC S15) (sourcedna.com)
    1 points 0 job
  7. Applications that link against OpenSSL will crash on Android M (sourcedna.com)
    16 points 9
  8. What's inside Google's new Go app for iOS and Android (sourcedna.com)
    74 points 21
  9. Finding Every Vulnerable App in the App Store (sourcedna.com)
    8 points 1
  10. Show HN: Wondering which SDKs are in iOS and Android apps & how they were made?

    I started SourceDNA because I wanted to build a highly scalable, cross-platform binary similarity engine. We can dump in libraries and apps from all over and discern patterns in their code. We've been scanning thousands…

    16 points 4
  11. Assembly Routine for Realtime Decoding of Floppy Data (linusakesson.net)
    103 points 13
  12. Fast and branchless line drawing routines (edepot.com)
    4 points 1
  13. TACK: certificate pinning to solve the SSL CA problem (tack.io)
    28 points 9
  14. On the evolving security of password schemes (rdist.root.org)
    2 points 1
  15. Daily Summary of Hacker News Daily (twitter.com)
    2 points 0
  16. Guardrails: secure Rails apps by source translation (guardrails.cs.virginia.edu)
    16 points 2
  17. The Bad Business Decision Quote That Never Was (True Story of Bell Patent) (blog.historyofphonephreaking.org)
    5 points 0
  18. Even optimized memcmp leaks useful timing differences (rdist.root.org)
    3 points 0
  19. A new direction for homebrew console hackers? (rdist.root.org)
    11 points 0
  20. Analysis of the PS3 hypervisor exploit (rdist.root.org)
    14 points 2
  21. I solved this encrypted BART ad. Can you? (sfbart.posterous.com)
    23 points 23
  22. How HAMs got me started in computers and electronics (rdist.root.org)
    3 points 0
  23. H(m || k) also insecure, you really should use HMAC (rdist.root.org)
    50 points 35