Chris Domas: The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare

[@ziggyjuarez8544]

This is going to be a popular video today.

[@TotalImmort7l]

coming from /g/?

[@allencummings7564]

I'm coming cuz I remember this video and being horrified at the implications way back when. Looks like the implications are becoming much more explicit :(

[@trapenoone6904]

I don't why people talk about this guy sarcastically, but this man is a same man who found vulnerability in x86 Intel processor back in 2015 and at that time people never really thought about the possibility. He show the potential that the vulnerability could be weaponize to gain highest privilege access deep inside the processor fully undetectable by the OS, even full memory forensic is never going to detect it. It's basically a GOD MODE backdoor.

[@ratache]

He was very careful not to mention the other areas of applicability this piece of technology has that affect civilian privacy and citizen integrity.

[@justinlavine9209]

Unfortunately, the truth is that cyberwarfare looks nothing like the shock violence in this movie. From my experience, it has more to do with torturing, raping, and involuntarily lobotomizing civilians, and inciting civil unrest so as to turn families against each other in order to turn people against their better interests as a society. It turns out that the same tools that are used to steal intellectual property are used with equal ease by terrorists and nations to reassign blame in ways that make Hitler's pograms look tame by comparison. The scientists who put this branch of study together should be ashamed of themselves, as it is very clear to me the organizations and countries presently using and investing in these techniques and technologies have little interest in handling them responsibly or for the greater good. The massive and largely unregulated expansion of the cybernetics industry has caused more problems in the West then these groups will ever admit to, and unfortunately, those problems are far outside of their ability to control or rectify as the victims themselves are the only ones facing any consequences.

[@MrKrooper]

I do not understand how all of you can comment on this sarcastically without having any idea about what you (or the hacker for that matter) are talking about. The core concept of the talk is translating binary code and the appliances of such an action. He explained that the current process is taking ages and is the complete opposite of efficient, whilst he is offering a revolutionary method that would help the specialists read and translate raw code virtually a hundred times faster! This is the first step to creating a universal interface for analysing and translating binary.

[@danguolestrumilaite2597]

if to stop means to stop but if not to stop that kind madness like kenedy chaos ,becourse its working still where in danmark people raped by the id so its kind they have what tomake with compures even biology or chemic did you se they try to find genies to be terrorist like kenedy run awy up thre when kil by this her family so acahemed

[@MrKrooper]

Danguole Strumilaite I'm sorry, what?

[@justinlavine9209]

Unfortunately, the truth is that cyberwarfare looks nothing like the shock violence in this movie. From my experience, it has more to do with torturing, raping, and involuntarily lobotomizing civilians, and inciting civil unrest so as to turn families against each other in order to turn people against their better interests as a society. It turns out that the same tools that are used to steal intellectual property are used with equal ease by terrorists and nations to reassign blame in ways that make Hitler's pograms look tame by comparison. The scientists who put this branch of study together should be ashamed of themselves, as it is very clear to me the organizations and countries presently using and investing in these techniques and technologies have little interest in handling them responsibly or for the greater good. The massive and largely unregulated expansion of the cybernetics industry has caused more problems in the West then these groups will ever admit to, and unfortunately, those problems are far outside of their ability to control or rectify as the victims themselves are the only ones facing any consequences.

[@tware1721]

I found this very intriguing, what was more interesting was how in the presentation he demonstrated how our minds are able to recognized patterns in mere seconds. At least for those who caught it .

[@KPPunKReloaded]

happened in lebanon

[@nacholibre134]

Herding humanity bro... But yeah it's all coming together

[@eisenkrieg553]

Happened again in Syria

[@CVDPDNB]

😅 This aged well.

[@ricktardif]

I hope this guy never dials the wrong number...

Take one shot of Jaeger each time he says CYBER!

[@Sebastian_Gecko]

Jäger*

[@TheCryztalmeth]

***** I think you mean above. Oh wait! Dammit!

[@MarcGroefsema]

TED variant of the "Hackathon" drinking game from "The social Network " x]

[@HaakonHawk]

I'm gonna take a shot everytime he says 1's and 0's.

[@peeetew]

hahaha!

[@TheTheads0]

Whenever he talked about cyber attack, i can only think of Kim Jong Un challenging Obama to a starcraft 1v1.

[@justinlavine9209]

Unfortunately, the truth is that cyberwarfare looks nothing like the shock violence in this movie. From my experience, it has more to do with torturing, raping, and involuntarily lobotomizing civilians, and inciting civil unrest so as to turn families against each other in order to turn people against their better interests as a society. It turns out that the same tools that are used to steal intellectual property are used with equal ease by terrorists and nations to reassign blame in ways that make Hitler's pograms look tame by comparison. The scientists who put this branch of study together should be ashamed of themselves, as it is very clear to me the organizations and countries presently using and investing in these techniques and technologies have little interest in handling them responsibly or for the greater good. The massive and largely unregulated expansion of the cybernetics industry has caused more problems in the West then these groups will ever admit to, and unfortunately, those problems are far outside of their ability to control or rectify as the victims themselves are the only ones facing any consequences.

[@SC2warms]

I don't trust this guy. He looks and sounds just like Cypher from the Matrix!

[@chaosjacky]

Why just think of terrorists when you discover that kind of potential ? Man, I'm beginning to think that in order to convince an american, just mention that you've found a way to protect from terrorism and they'll be throwing dollars at you

[@7Dimensi0ns]

Welcome to the fear mongering post 911 world friend.

[@Vidar_Odinson]

It's the new Russians post-Cold War. Sadly this time around, the money isn't going to NASA and space exploration.

[@rajvinjamuri7]

As 7Dimensi0ns said, this is the world after 9/11. Don't forget that the Pentagon was hit too, and China stole the design data of our latest-gen fighter jet, the F-35. The world of cyber-warfare is terribly real and present, not something that is upcoming.

[@Popsickles1493]

+chaosjacky Bc thats what cyber security is about lmfao

[@Popsickles1493]

+chaosjacky Bc thats what cyber security is about lmfao

[@yurikolovsky]

This is fantastic! Now I want this pattern technique used in an image detection program

[@kosmique]

watching this video "hmmm we sure have some smart people on this planet" reading the comments "hmmm we sure dont...."

[@SAsgarters]

"unlocked the means to stop the bad guys" Or the good guys.

[@MrFucius]

So now we know "cyber is a real domain of power" - Bibi

[@RalphDratman]

Is Chris Domas serious when he says it is bad that we have to defend against a new kind of attack, but GOOD that we can attack others, such as "terrorists"? Does he think we are living in a cops and robbers TV show, where good guys only do good, bad guys only do bad, and we always know which is which?

[@rajvinjamuri7]

Attacking known hubs of cyber attacks against you can slow them down. How do you take down people attacking you? At the same time, we cannot assume that all the people in American authority using this has perfect motivation and targeting either.

[@SebastianAudet]

VinjaNinja He said it himself - bullets and police chases. Who gave those in 'authority' their authority anyways? Chris Domas is a pretty good example of why these people are trash - they are so caught up with themselves they fail to see just how harmful they really are. People in positions of power are never to be trusted, especially the ones, like himself, who 'happen' across it. There have been studies done, as well as millennia of history that show just how (and how badly) power corrupts.

[@jordangourley3955]

How is the “visual abstraction” generated?

[@allencummings7564]

Trade secret maybe?

[@jordangourley3955]

@@allencummings7564 possibly. Or it could be total bullshit. Binary language is a digital concept. Abstract visualization is an analog concept. At no point did he explain how he crossed that bridge.

[@allencummings7564]

@@jordangourley3955 yeah, could be total bullshit I agree

[@karagiannisboris]

LIKE WHAT THEY DID IN LEBANON? 18/9/24

[@Overonator]

There us something perverse about discussing blowing up cell phone batteries and possibly killing their users and juxtaposing cute kittens.

[@cheeseisgreat24]

I'm seeing a lot of comments that either show the people only watched half the video, or have absolutely no idea what he is saying and commented anyway. To reiterate his point, he is converting an arduous but important task into a task that our brains pick up and do naturally so that he can sift through mountains of 1s and 0s in a tiny fraction of the time it would normally take. Yes, it is effective, and yes, it will totally assist in the later portions of reverse engineering and hacking. It makes your starting point only a few hours or days long instead of a few weeks or months long. Also, the data he is analyzing is not at all random, not even in the slightest. He is analyzing the code of a machine made by humans and written by humans. That is not at all random. That's not even Pseudo-random. Monumental? yes. random? no. Especially when you look at it through his nifty visualizations which allow you to see precisely what the code is regardless of what the code actually does or says. He can use that visualization to determine whether he's looking at an english text file, a russian text file, a picture, an audio file, or machine language, all in a few moments compared to how long it would have taken before.

[@justinlavine9209]

Unfortunately, the truth is that cyberwarfare looks nothing like the shock violence in this movie. From my experience, it has more to do with torturing, raping, and involuntarily lobotomizing civilians, and inciting civil unrest so as to turn families against each other in order to turn people against their better interests as a society. It turns out that the same tools that are used to steal intellectual property are used with equal ease by terrorists and nations to reassign blame in ways that make Hitler's pograms look tame by comparison. The scientists who put this branch of study together should be ashamed of themselves, as it is very clear to me the organizations and countries presently using and investing in these techniques and technologies have little interest in handling them responsibly or for the greater good. The massive and largely unregulated expansion of the cybernetics industry has caused more problems in the West then these groups will ever admit to, and unfortunately, those problems are far outside of their ability to control or rectify as the victims themselves are the only ones facing any consequences.

[@Raisin_Girl]

Did anyone else catch themselves giving their phones or computers a suspicious look while listening to this?

[@GonzoooderGuertel]

"To stop the bad guys" it's kind of a naive ending, but what mindblowing idea !!

[@unchaynd7266]

Couldn't help but notice that there is no link to Christopher's software that he uses to visualize the data. Where might one find that software?

[@Vidar_Odinson]

"Blonde, brunette, redhead..."

[@willhendrix86]

Probably thinks he looks like Cypher also... lol

[@Illasera]

does it work on pagers and walkie talkies?

[@frankblangeard8865]

'We' have a whole new way to prevent evil people from doing evil things. But...what if we become the evil people doing evil things. 'If the light that is in you is darkness, how great that darkness is'.

[@MoerreNoseshine]

I lost some espresso that was in my mouth (and subsequently had to clean the desk) when he started talking about "evil people doing evil things". A relative of the Bush family? Evildoers, beware! The level of this talk is kept insultingly stupid. Unfortunately his masters seem to have a point, judging from the amount of upvotes he still gets. And you know, I *could* actually agree with at least some of the thoughts behind it, if only they wouldn't treat the population like (the) total idiots (they are?).

[@InayetHadi]

The video is chopped up. Btw - cyber war fare is the new level playing field, allows individual or group of individuals to act with the resources of state.

[@rkkm67]

Wdym by chopped up?

[@kevinwestrom4775]

That is a brilliant new way to use the human ability of our analog-based vision, to take the digital binary language and analyze it in mere seconds. Other types of information could be visualized for instant analysis as well, for much quicker malware analysis of viruses, worms, cyber weapons, etc.

[@LeonidasGGG]

This is a really good talk and a very innovated idea. I just didn't like the example of "exploding batteries" because, I'm pretty sure that they would use it to blow up every phone in a determinated area just to get the terrorist, regardless of if it could harm civilians...image if a kid was talking on his phone and it blew up in his face?

[@JohnPaton3]

Your assumption that a strategic attack of that skill level would carelessly deploy a weapon, that could be more accurate, with less proficiency than is necessary simply because they haven't gathered specific intelligence is indicative of your skewed perception from pop-journalism media. I blame fox news; it's not your fault.

[@rajvinjamuri7]

"I'm pretty sure that they would use it to blow up every phone in a determinated area" I highly doubt an authoritative figure would indiscriminately blow up several phones when they can easily target the one phone in question. Unless others are in extremely close proximity, blowing up others is not only illogical but pointless.

[@JohnPaton3]

VinjaNinja I already said that, but thanks ?

[@RalphDratman]

VinjaNinja Doing things that are not only illogical but also pointless is the specialty of desperate people everywhere. In a moment of life or death, doing something illogical and pointless has the tremendous advantage of being entirely unpredictable. The U.S. military is no exception.

[@Dloc47]

He never said how did he changed binary pattern into visual abstract!

[@Gameboygenius]

Search for "cantor dust binary visualization" and "veles binary visualization".

[@XNAforyou]

I use disassemblers and debuggers to reverse engineer binary files... yes it is time-consuming but effective... Not sure about this, but I welcome work that aims to address this issue

[@timetuner]

Screw cyber security. Get this man working on ways to visualize genetic code.

[@mhtinla]

What does CYBER mean? Well, let's do "CYBER" and I'll show you ;-)

[@bryanlavigueur7181]

That kitty pic could of been steganography encryption which had a message in it

[@daisywithers6277]

You must be a cryptologist 8-)

[@bign00bs]

The majority of comments seem to be from people disappointed at what they wanted this presentation to be about and not what it actually is about. Cut a hole in your boxes and climb out.

[@MrViveksingh11]

Well well well

[@MarcusMorgan]

Still have to wonder why your smartphone can be made to remotely explode. Sounds like a product liability to me. Can I sue the manufacturer if my hand is burned?

[@nacasius]

Its your job to be educated about anything you buy. Your phone has a battery. Batteries create Heat. Don't like it? Simply don't buy anything with a battery. Welcome to the stone age.

[@MarcusMorgan]

nacasius A flashlight can't be made to explode by remote control. It can fail if poorly constructed or if damaged by impact. While it is important to be knowledgeable about devices you buy, the manufacturer has substantial responsibility to provide a reasonably safe device instead of a remote control controlled remotely. I solve this particular problem by turning my cell phone off and wrapping it in a Faraday shield. Reduces the attack space to almost zero.

[@nacasius]

Sounds sane. Congrats.

[@adrianbarum3372]

***** True, now we have Ida!

[@annoloki]

Poorly made lithium ion batteries have been known to explode and cause injuries during charging. Properly made batteries have heat regulators on them which cause them to stop charging if they become too warm. Laptop batteries have the code that controls this on a chip in the battery pack itself, so the battery can shut itself down if it gets too hot. It's possible phone batteries don't, hence why plugging newer phones in to charge, while turned off, half turns them on first. Seems pretty far fetched though.

[@lbgstzockt8493]

The camera has a stuck pixel in the top left of the frame.

[@unclejeezy674]

Having seen this guys other videos... I need to develop a program that looks like a meme when he loads it into the visualizer.

[@RamJamSky]

Right... I have NEVER encountered a cyber security expert who works on a binary level. Binary is the LAST STEP of raw data with many layers in between. Getting back actionable functionality from binary is like figuring out what movement your elbow can make looking at nucleotides. It's extremely far removed. i.e. NOBODY looks at nucleotides to figure out how elbow's move. You look at the muscle, joints, etc.

[@HubbaRock84]

Amazing! True pioneer

[@ArsalanJawaid1]

Very nice

[@KennedyChimwanda]

He is good

[@jessicapennell5252]

So was the greyscale picture of a kitten a pgm file, and the color picture a pnm file, and that's why laying out the raw data in a grid and zooming out on it actually meant anything?

[@crazzzik]

TL;DW version: It helps to visualize data in different ways while reverse engineering it.

[@JodsLife1]

know your strengths

[@paulmertens5522]

Awesome stuff

[@AirskiiMusic]

Wish someone without a military agenda gave this talk: it always feels wrong to hear the word terrorist thrown about so freely. Also I hope the NSA gets hold of this tech, I hear their track record is rather exemplary.

[@orsonincharge4879]

Pretty sure the phone would heat up to the point you would drop it or throw it before it blew up . Theoretically .

[@metaedward8011]

Take a lesson from this guy: If you're going to explain technology to noobs, start off with talk of exploding cellphones.

[@CursedJoker]

Am i the only one thinking that he could at least use hexadecimal instead of looking at endless pages of binary?

[@Kenckaplus]

My dream of reverse engineering byte code into source code is near.

[@algebraist1997]

That can already be accomplished... The IDA Pro disassembler has been around for years and can take as input an executable binary and display the assembly code. The HexRays decompiler can also produce pseudo-code or in some cases compilable C code. There are also free tools that can help you such as the Hopper disassembler and OllyDBG.

[@Kenckaplus]

MrLamaj123 Wow thanks to let me know it. I think disassembling code might be easy, given you know what the architecture is. But decompiling byte code into C code again is really awesome. But still C is a low level programming language. Imagine how hard it should be to transform binary files to C++ source code, with code clarity, following standards, etc... This would certainly redefine software engineering...

[@Apvatar3000]

Shouldn't computers of the future be reinvented and redesigned to be run on some other variables other than 1's and O's ?

[@JoelPeltonen]

Look up quantum computers, they are basically an attempt to add a third option. The problem is that the issue is hardware-level, which makes it very difficult to overcome. all of the 1's and 0's are still switches that are on or off. And all the hardware that we have relies on those assumptions.

[@Odin31b]

Joel Peltonen well put. .

[@idogtv]

... what?

[@rajvinjamuri7]

1s and 0s are an abstraction above what is happening in the hardware, which is high and low potential voltages, which is likened to high/low concentration/flow of electrons. Even quantum computers won't replace this "traditional" tool, as they are only better at certain types of calculations.

[@jackinsf]

Google "quantum computing". As I understand it; its still 1's and 0's but instead of being either/or sometimes it is both a 1 and a zero at the same time. Technology gets more complex as it evolves not less complex. The point he made about translating raw data to a visual representation (we are pattern seeking animals) takes a non native format and puts it into our brains native format. Brilliant. Don't get me started on the whole terrorism is a tool deployed by government to keep us all in fear so not only do we not protest losing our rights; people demand random searches and cell phone spying to " keep us safe"! Orwell was an optimist it turns out. Big brother is watching!

[@Zander101084]

Half the commenters on this page who are calling bullshit on this guy think they're smarter than him and probably haven't ever written a single line of code, but those will be the same people rioting in the streets in protest after agencies like the NSA infringe on their privacy. There is no hope for humanity.

[@numbah12time]

They should have Jacob Appelbaum do a Ted presentation. :)

[@zephy777]

Thats so cool!

[@tshwarelojoelmooke4351]

This would be me, Understanding binary is the base of this modern technology. Understanding how a computer handles data sount interesting. I think it's time to take my binary understanding to the next level

[@yambone635]

It's probably better to start with Assembly. Nobody directly reads binary. Assembly is about one level above that, and it is as "close to the metal" as you would ever reasonably need to get.

[@ArjanKC]

I do not think you can explode batteries! Remotely!! That's just science fiction!

[@RDHeath]

An interesting talk, but i don't like the obvious implications for military use. Are there not non-military, friendly uses for this?

[@allencummings7564]

I think something similar is used by companies like youtube, to find out if you're posting other people's intellectual property. That's why you see people posting shows and movies with a wierd border around them and garbled audio, to change what the "visual abstraction" looks like. Tho in this case it isn't just a visual abstraction it's a compressed signature of the data itself that can more easily be detected than finding the entire video

[@FredMF]

are there any papers on this ?

[@CodeAsm]

His tools are on Github and you can use GIMP to see image data in binairies. I use this to disect firmware and games to find hidden code or images.

[@Koreanmasitda]

That was a hard one for me :(( I'm not sure what his point is... Visual perception on complicated codes or problems for cyber engineers are useful...?

[@millsmotion]

This guy looks just like Cypher from the matrix 😮

[@TheTrafiz]

So who developed the algorithm to convert the binary into visual data? Was it him or is he using an algorithm that's already in use but just publicising it on TED?

[@godthisisannoying]

He seems to be taking credit for it, so he was probably part of the team that came up with these visualization tools.

[@mperritoz]

This get's kind of interesting past the middle, though only kind of.

[@shway1]

TED if i wanted to watch TEDx talks I would subscribe to the TEDx channel. please only upload relevant stuff to this channel.

[@crazyconstanta6807]

Am I the only one who's first thought was "Wait what?! My cell-phone could blow up? And I'm carrying this in my front pocket near... you know... dang it... O_o" ?

[@xGCPiE4SaQ0Lbc]

might be an interesting way to detect stenography

[@WMfin]

Interesting talk but I hate that talking about terrorists. And I wouldn't like to see this battery exploding thing used against protesters etc.. So if US gov owns this technology then I am worried and Chris wouldn't be talking about terrorists if US gov would play it's cards right with other nations and not create more terrorists with pointless wars..

[@luisdanielmesa]

His talk has this hypothetical situation to divert the attention from a real world use... he needs to have the terrorist's phone or else he wouldn't be worrying about kittens... he means he can grab an electronic device (imagine you cross the border into the US (border crossing, airport, etc) where the law allows for all your electronics to be seized indefinitely, scanned and copied) and they don't need to have your phone's password to know what's inside. They can see your contact list, messages, pictures, etc.

[@jannovak7187]

Only thing I see is the Matrix and Cypher talking about it.

[@randyadamlloyd]

Turns out it's really easy

[@weeniehutjr8316]

Life hack #7363: Easier way to blow up a phone, get a galaxy note 7

[@ShredCo]

Where's the evidence for unmodified phones being detonated at the push of a button " from a thousand miles away"? I know american defence contractors are all about fear-mongering but that's new... We'd better pay him to protect us from this threat we've never heard of.

[@MichaelSHartman]

If a language can be recognized or differentiated from other data forms, even distinguished from other languages then has anyone applied this to the study of animal sounds/language?

[@FredMF]

not to theoretical anymore

[@Laou41]

5 minutes in and I hate it. He is a perfect representation of the paranoia, violence and global conflict that dominates American political policy.

[@rajvinjamuri7]

It isn't paranoia. America's F-35 fighter jet, the latest in air-domination force we have, has had design data stolen by cyber attacks from China. Target just lost thousands of people's credit card data from a cyber attack. It's fact that there are people out there that want your information, and the information of the national security of your country.

[@P00P0STER0US]

Focus not on his task but on his solution. Really impressive! The "stop the bad guys" thing is just a bright ribbon, don't be distracted by that. The use of our astonishing visual processing capabilities is the triumph here.

[@TheRealFufuchs]

Can't agree more. It was a good talk nevertheless.

[@TheRealTannerThoman]

+Matthew Zunder If you knew how often our Critical Infrastructure was attacked by what are obviously state-sponsored hackers you would probably feel different about the use of the word "paranoia".

[@twistedsim]

The guy found backdoor in processor but hey, he is the one who paranoïd..

[@elminz]

I do some reverse engineering and similar stuff, but this talk sounded so stupid. Well obfuscated code would have almost no discernible pattern that could be used between separate cases on the same architecture (Main exceptions being when encrypted using the same set of tools). Tools like IDA Pro already offer vast amounts of power in decrypting and understanding encrypted executable files. If you're looking for visual patterns, you're probably looking at something that could easily be algorithmically identified without having to visually see the pattern. What makes viruses/trojans etc difficult to analyse isn't the patterns, but the fact that hardware and code can execute things in very unintuitive and non-standard ways over a huge number of steps very quickly. It's not just a simple data pattern that's hard to spot.

[@ZestyCrunchy]

So, you are saying you can make any arbitrary phone explode, remotely? Come on!

[@xsto01]

thank god i can read binearie

[@Owyss]

He took the red pill. Now it's your turn.

[@RyuhoKudo]

Sounds like a pitch for a bad cyber criminal Hollywood movie. I wish he went into the algorithm behind the binary visualizer instead of just hand-waving it.

[@privatetutor1]

Who would want to do this as a job?

[@serahiever]

Seriously they can remotely control my phone and demand it to explode? This is EVIL!!!

[@jt2456]

How did sypher get into the matrix?!

[@oniricPrj]

Ok, sooooo... 1. I'm supposed to still be walking around with a potential bomb 2. I'm supposed to be walking around without any privacy in my life (well: knew that already) 3. If we fight terrorists, we blow them up instead than trying to capture them? AWWWW look at me! I got so "ethical, and stuff"! Silly me, silly me. Anyway thanks for spreading this idea: always good to know Big Brother is looking after us ;)

[@zirbat16]

*I really don't see what the problem is here he explained that hes work is cyber defense and offence what else he should have talked about? You cannot satisfy a people these day ha.*

[@nikolagrujicic6112]

I am a software developer i have never heard of someone analysing binary code by looking at it and reading it, it is just not efficient at all, and he also mentioned a couple of times his lab which if you are a programmer you now that a your lab is just your laptop, i think that this guy is lying a loth

[@alekseyalexej9665]

His biggest lie is the story of a cell phone battery. The lithium battery is hardware protected. At least double: by voltage and by temperature. Exceeding any of these two parameters disables charging independently and in hardware. You can never blow up a mobile phone with software!

[@haarmegiddo]

And congratz. For a computer science professionalist, you've discovered an binary image converter really late in your carrer.

[@randomuser5237]

Congratz to you too, for an average youtube commenter, you've discovered that you're a moron really late in your life.

[@nikolagrujicic6112]

I think that this guy is a fraud, i mean ho sits on the computer for 30 hours reading binary pure code and finally finds out that it was a picture of a cat, i mean for real is this guy crazy

[@liquidtrick187]

That alghorithm dies as soon as encryption is implemented, just saying.

[@robyrobster12]

Mind blown... And I'm a cyber guy :(

[@Orinslayer]

That darn kitten.

[@vickmackey24]

Yeah, I call bullshit on this. I heard nothing substantive, just a bunch of generalities and pretty visualizations of who knows what. One would think that if this was _actually_ effective, he would've given a real life practical demonstration of hacking a phone with this purported technique. Good grief, it's hard enough to use data visualization to properly analyze *known* data, let alone _random_ data.

[@GarethField]

Saltometer over nine thousaaaannnd!!

[@ricande]

Yep! Complete bullshit. This guy can't even make his own ass explode.

[@ninpo1500]

I'm pretty sure TED wouldn't publish a how-to manual on a process to injure someone

[@ArtArtisian]

I think the contribution this fellow is trying to make is the actual visualization software, not cyber warfare techniques. But your right, it seems mislabeled.

[@vickmackey24]

Joseph George I don't doubt that you can apply some sort of data visualization algorithm on some random data to produce some interesting images that in some context might _assist_ in the code analysis process. What I _do_ highly doubt is that you can use such a technique to hack or reverse engineer a phone "within a few hours" to do _anything_, let alone blow it up. Anyone who's actually cracked or reverse engineered software before knows how complicated it can be even with _actual_ disassemblers and high-level debuggers that are _tailored_ for the target language and architecture under analysis. And yet you actually believe that creating pretty pictures out of 0s and 1s in a complete mish-mash of _random_ intermixed data is going to be faster and even more effective? Get real. Any practical application of data visualization in the reverse engineering process is probably very limited in scope. This TED talk, however, seems to suggest that looking at code like in the Matrix or flying through it like in the movie Hackers is somehow all you need to hack a device or a piece of software. It is a gross over-simplification of what's involved. Just think about all the different ways that data can be stored with all the different data formats, compression algorithms, system architectures, calling conventions, encryption algorithms, file system types, etc. You have to know _something_ about the data you're analyzing before any visualization algorithm could even hope to be helpful. Even a statistical analysis is not completely blind. If you think I'm wrong about this, then I suppose you didn't see any problem with Jeff Goldblum uploading a virus to an alien computer in ID4.

[@meltingEyeballs]

Nice kitty! :)

[@mctm1221]

The talk was about 0 and 1 as patterns for visual recognition watch it again. it could possibly make any information over cyber space be decoded . may be some what far fetched but then again the anything is possible

[@danguolestrumilaite2597]

what about kenedy

[@huw008]

It would be easier to open up a hex editor and look for patterns in there for code, images, etc.

[@Jon-qv1ib]

What a domas

[@thewwefan57]

Is this the ubisoft Watch_Dogs panel?

[@matthewgrimsley4506]

For a much more technical (and satisfying) version of this talk watch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apOwZHqrqZabf80