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Seth M. Rabin
dblp:224/9249
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 2 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Empirical software engineering · 100% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Systems and software security · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Systems and software security
reverse engineering |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | An Observational Investigation of Reverse Engineers' Processes · USENIX Security Symposium 2020 |
Empirical software engineering
developer studies |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | An Observational Investigation of Reverse Engineers' Processes · USENIX Security Symposium 2020 |
Empirical software engineering › developer studies
observational study |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | An Observational Investigation of Reverse Engineers' Processes · USENIX Security Symposium 2020 |
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | An Investigation of Online Reverse Engineering Community Discussions in the Context of GhidraabstractReverse engineering is a complex task. As with many other expert tasks, reverse engineers rely on colleagues and the broader reverse engineering community to provide guidance and develop knowledge necessary to achieve their goals. For example, it is common for reverse engineers to reach out for help to understand and effectively use new tools. Thus far, however, there has been limited investigation of the way knowledge is developed in this community and new tools are adopted. This paper takes a first step toward understanding reverse engineering community dynamics around tool adoption, using the release of the National Security Agency's Ghidra reverse engineering framework as a point of focus. In this paper, we review discussions about Ghidra to identify what features reverse engineers are most interested in, how reverse engineers develop knowledge about Ghidra together online, and whether these dynamics differ between forums. In total, we analyze 1590 reverse engineering discussions between 688 reverse engineers over 3 forums (i.e., Twitter, Reddit, and StackExchange). Our results suggest reverse engineers are most interested in features that allow them to customize Ghidra. We also observe limited evidence of collective sensemaking on the forums, with few reverse engineers participating in multiple discussions threads and most acting as either knowledge producers or consumers. Finally, we found that the forums operated similarly, but Twitter was most often used to announce information (e.g., tutorial links, tool overviews, vulnerabilities in Ghidra) and reverse engineers used StackExchange mostly to get support for specific problems. Reddit acted as a middle option. Based on these results, we make recommendations to improve reverse engineering tool development, improve community participation during adoption, and suggest directions for future work. Daniel Votipka, Mary Nicole Dugay Punzalan, Seth M. Rabin, Yla R. Tausczik, Michelle L. Mazurek |
EuroS&P | 3 |
| 2020 | An Observational Investigation of Reverse Engineers' Processes
Daniel Votipka, Seth M. Rabin, Kristopher K. Micinski, Jeffrey S. Foster, Michelle L. Mazurek |
USENIX Security Symposium | 2 |