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The Evolution of Capture the Flag Competitions
09:39 - 13:57 (04:18)
The speaker expresses his bias towards the peak years of 2011 to 2015 in the CTF competitive scene, and mentions its similarity to modern competitive programming. He notes the quality of the players and the amount of innovation during those years.
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Kira is a debugger that efficiently visualizes the change of state of a computer as a program runs by showing the exact time when a variable was changed or accessed.
09:39 - 10:42 (01:02)
Summary
Kira is a debugger that efficiently visualizes the change of state of a computer as a program runs by showing the exact time when a variable was changed or accessed. However, the tooling and the size of the binary often make it less popular than other debugging methods.
ChapterThe Evolution of Capture the Flag Competitions
EpisodeGeorge Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
In the period between 2011 and 2015, CTFs (Capture The Flag competitions) were at their peak with the best security experts from around the world challenging each other to come up with new toy exploitable things.
10:42 - 12:52 (02:10)
Summary
In the period between 2011 and 2015, CTFs (Capture The Flag competitions) were at their peak with the best security experts from around the world challenging each other to come up with new toy exploitable things.
ChapterThe Evolution of Capture the Flag Competitions
EpisodeGeorge Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The challenges in cybersecurity are usually inspired by real flaws and are human constructed.
12:52 - 13:57 (01:04)
Summary
The challenges in cybersecurity are usually inspired by real flaws and are human constructed. These days everything has vulnerabilities but primarily the focus has been on mobile systems, and the price to exploit them has gone up due to increased difficulty.