I am excited to welcome Thomas Dullien @Noise2SignalPod to the Noise2Signal podcast! This episode's title was inspired by Thomas Ptacek’s excellent write-up, "Vulnerability Research is Cooked," which is equal parts inspiring and depressing. Inspiring because finding vulnerabilities in codebases has become so accessible; depressing because we risk losing a generation of experts skilled in the fine art of reverse engineering, which, as Thomas notes, is fundamentally an exercise in endurance. Fortunately, Thomas Dullien brings a much more uplifting perspective on the future of cyber offense and defense with AI. His take: a human equipped with a tool will continue to outperform the tool alone for the foreseeable future. Having spent the early part of my career in vulnerability research before founding @QuantroSecurity, I’ve long looked up to pioneers like Halvar and HD Moore (from Season 1). It was fascinating to dive into how they came up through the cracking and hacking scene of late 90's and early 2000's. A few episode highlights: - How Thomas Dullien became Halvar Flake. - The 90s cracking and hacking scenes. - The origins of BinDiff (and the crazy stories of shadowy figures trying to buy it) - Google’s acquisition of BinDiff and the comedy of errors that followed. - Founding Optimyze - How AI will reshape the future of cyber offense and defense Listen to the full episode here Thomas joins @OpenAI next week to "better cyber". Wish him luck. 🙌 🙏