LPisGood 7 hours ago

Battelle is great. They also created some software called Cantor Dust [1] that turns files into images to allow humans to easily spot obfuscated data or files.

The sad thing about this kind of work, because I love it, is that to get paid to do it you need clearances and polygraphs and periodic reinvestigations/continuous monitoring and all sorts of things that I find unpleasant.

[1] https://github.com/Battelle/cantordust

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  • mmastrac 6 hours ago

    I'm not sure what you mean but I was a security researcher for a large company for a bit and required none of that. I was required to work airgapped at home, however.

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    • LPisGood 6 hours ago

      Really? You were doing offensive security work not for a government (/contractor)? What sorts companies, aside from some enterprise pen testers, employ these roles?

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      • saagarjha 3 hours ago

        The tools you’re talking about are not exclusive to offensive security. They’re plenty useful for malware analysis and other reverse engineering tasks.

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      • mmastrac 6 hours ago

        Email is in my profile -- happy to clarify/share some very rough details if you'd like.

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beng-nl 5 hours ago

Agreed that is a fine piece of work. But the author is Chris Domas. Which is plain from the repo readme, but it’d be clearer to link to his repo.

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