Starfighter, Summer 2015
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Starfighter, Summer 2015
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Re: Starfighter, Summer 2015
#2I wish I didn't need money, so I could just play this game. Unfortunately I'm starting a new venture right now, so it's terrible timing :( And in real life, at least in telecom, far less people seem to care about security and exploits.
Starfighter sounds incredibly ambitious and fun. Patrick's part sounds like it'll be making fun of Bitcoin exchanges. And there's probably going to be a rush to build higher and higher level compilers for this emulator.
This is gonna be awesome.
Re: Starfighter, Summer 2015
#3Knowing just a teensy bit of 68K and x86 assembly, I still am shocked to hear that there are "something like 16 load and 13 store instructions". Super... cool.
This post has given Starfighter a lot more flavour in my mind. Thanks, Erin!
edit: For anyone interested, here's a link to that ATmega8515 data sheet: (caution, pdf) http://www.atmel.com/images/2512s.pdf
Re: Starfighter, Summer 2015
#4Great job! I wish I had serious time to play with it (and that I sucked less at this stuff)
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#5I'm excited that all the AVR I learned reverse engineering mouse firmware isn't going to go to waste. I honestly thought it was knowledge I would never use again.
Re: Starfighter, Summer 2015
#6Knowing just a teensy bit of 68K and x86 assembly, I still am shocked to hear that there are "something like 16 load and 13 store instructions". Super... cool. This post has given Starfighter a lot more flavour in my mind. Thanks, Erin! edit: For anyone interested, here's a link to that ATmega8515 data sheet: (caution, pdf) http://www.atmel.com/images/2512s.pdf
We're definitely not stopping with AVR. The original plan was, AVR, then compiler, then (architecture X), then launch. But compiler took so long that we're just going to do AVR and surface the compiler's IR as another architecture.
We'll have (architecture X) done in a month or so. And a pretty hilarious "architecture" after that.
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#7I'm super excited for this. Micro Corruption [1] literally changed my life [2], and I can't wait to see what the team at Starfighter have put together.
If you haven't yet, give Micro Corruption a try. It's the first thing I recommend when people ask me how to get started in application security, and everyone I've recommended it to loves it.
You don't need to know anything about security to finish the first level, but by the time you finish the last level you'll be a force to be reckoned with.
Best of luck to tptacek and co., the Samurai CTF team can't wait to play your next game.
[1] https://microcorruption.com
[2] I've since dropped out of school to work full time in security, and now compete on a top-tier CTF team. I couldn't even spell buffer overflow before Micro Corruption.
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#8I was mildly interested previously based on the initial pitch. Now, I am pretty sure I'll be playing.
Re: Starfighter, Summer 2015
#9I am looking forward to this so much.
Re: Starfighter, Summer 2015
#10I wish I didn't need money, so I could just play this game. Unfortunately I'm starting a new venture right now, so it's terrible timing :( And in real life, at least in telecom, far less people seem to care about security and exploits. Starfighter sounds incredibly ambitious and fun. Patrick's part sounds like it'll be making fun of Bitcoin exchanges. And there's probably going to be a rush to build higher and higher…
Patrick's part sounds like it'll be making fun of Bitcoin exchanges.
Oh believe me, when we do Bitcoin, we won't be nearly that subtle.