Hacking with Go: Part 4 (Go Time #270)

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Our “Hacking with Go” series continues! This time Natalie & Johnny are joined by Ivan Kwiatkowski & Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade and the conversation is we’re focused around generics and AI.

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Featuring:

• Ivan Kwiatkowski – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
• Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade – Twitter, Website
• Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub
• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Hacking with Go: Part 1
• Hacking with Go: Part 2
• Hacking with Go: Part 3
• GPT-4 announcement
• Felix former colleague of Ivan
• The JS left padding fiasco
• Rust crates
• Ivan’s reverse engineering tool
• JAGS’ colleague experience with the go decoder
• Ruby based offensive security framework

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - It's Go Time!
(00:57) - Welcoming back our guests
(02:20) - The latest malware
(14:46) - Hacking as a real job
(22:07) - Go's place in infosec
(27:13) - LLMs for hacking
(36:59) - Gepetto & generics
(42:52) - Attackers get all the tools
(46:05) - Natalie's formal apology to IKEA
(47:46) - It's time for Unpopular Opinions!
(49:03) - JAGS' unpop
(50:28) - Ivan's unpop
(51:34) - Johnny's unpop
(56:05) - Natalie's unpop
(59:41) - Gotta Go!
(1:00:02) - Next time on Go Time