Nate Lawson

I recently started my own security consulting firm, Root Labs. I focus on design and review of systems involving embedded and kernel security, crypto, and software protection. I write a blog on many of these same topics.

Previously, I've been at Cryptography Research, Decru, Nifty Devices, Scient, Infogard, ISS, and Elite.Net. Have I really been doing security for this long?

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FreeBSD

I've been a FreeBSD committer since 2002. Initially, I wrote a SCSI target emulator and contributed it since I had to write a similar module twice previously for work. Then, my laptop didn't work very well with ACPI so I took a look. As typically happens when you do that, I ended up becoming the maintainer. It's a difficult subsystem since it includes the processor, chipset, and all the BIOS. Also, there are too many BIOS bugs to work around.

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Commodore 64 and Copy Protection

We can learn a lot about modern copy protection by studying the past. There was an intriguing arms race during the 1980's that is not well-documented. This section documents protection methods and code for analyzing them.

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