By Sabina Leonelli

"This Element examines the role played by OS principles & practices within contemporary research & how this relates to the epistemology of science. [...] it highlights how the interpretation of openness as the sharing of resources, [...] may have the unwanted effect of constraining epistemic diversity & worsening epistemic injustice [...]
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/philosophy-of-open-science/0D049ECF635F3B676C03C6868873E406

#ResearchPractice #EquityInResearch #DiversityInResearch #OpenSociety #SciencePolicy

Finding bugs in C code with Multi-Level IR and VAST - Intermediate languages (IRs) are what reverse engineers and vulnerability researchers use... https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/06/15/finding-bugs-with-mlir-and-vast/ #researchpractice #compilers #reversing

Introducing RPC Investigator - A new tool for Windows RPC research
By Aaron LeMasters
Trail of Bits is releasing ... https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/01/17/rpc-investigator-microsoft-windows-remote-procedure-call/ #engineeringpractice #researchpractice #microsoftwindows

RT @SusannaASansone@twitter.com

CLOSING: #PhD opportunity at @UniofOxford@twitter.com @OxfordeResearch@twitter.com on #reproducibility #opendata #researchpractice #FAIRdata with our colleagues at @DiamondLightSou@twitter.com ⬇️ https://twitter.com/openressalford/status/1600862350264848384

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SusannaASansone/status/1600919599897530369

The dangers of #PanelTitleConfusion - this panel is called Congruent Engines and isn't part of #CongruenceEngine at all! It's about *using* disparate sources, not digitally unifying sources. A snapshot of #ResearchPractice now, in the absence of a union source.

Look out! Divergent representations are everywhere! - By Andreas Kellas
Trail of Bits recently published a blog post about a signed inte... https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/11/10/divergent-representations-variable-overflows-c-compiler/ #internshipprojects #researchpractice #uncategorized #binaryninja #codeql

We do Windows now - At Trail of Bits, we pride ourselves on building tools that everyone can use to help impr... https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/10/18/microsoft-windows-security-research-team/ #researchpractice #uncategorized #pressrelease #careers #osquery

Secure your machine learning with Semgrep - By Suha Hussein
tl;dr: Our publicly available Semgrep ruleset now has 11 rules ded... https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/10/03/semgrep-maching-learning-static-analysis/ #researchpractice #machinelearning #staticanalysis

Are blockchains decentralized? - A new Trail of Bits research report examines unintended centralities in distributed ledge... https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/06/21/are-blockchains-decentralized/ #researchpractice #pressrelease #darpa

Themes from Real World Crypto 2022 - By William Woodruff
Last week, over 500 cryptographers from around the world gathered in ... https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/05/03/themes-from-real-world-crypto-2022/ #researchpractice #cryptography #compilers

Toward a Best-of-Both-Worlds Binary Disassembler - By Stefan Nagy
This past winter, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to work f... https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/01/05/toward-a-best-of-both-worlds-binary-disassembler/ #researchpractice #staticanalysis #reversing

Un-bee-lievable Performance: Fast Coverage-guided Fuzzing with Honeybee and Intel Processor Trace - By Allison Husain, UC Berkeley
Today, we are releasing an experimental coverage-guided fuzzer called... https://blog.trailofbits.com/2021/03/19/un-bee-lievable-performance-fast-coverage-guided-fuzzing-with-honeybee-and-intel-processor-trace/ #internshipprojects #researchpractice #fuzzing

Confessions of a smart contract paper reviewer - If you’re thinking of writing a paper describing an exciting novel approach to smart contract anal... https://blog.trailofbits.com/2021/02/05/confessions-of-a-smart-contract-paper-reviewer/ #researchpractice #blockchain #fuzzing

High-fidelity build instrumentation with blight - TL;DR: We’re open-sourcing a new framework, blight, for painlessly wrapping and instrumenting C and ... https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/11/25/high-fidelity-build-instrumentation-with-blight/ #researchpractice #compilers

Graphtage: A New Semantic Diffing Tool - Graphtage is a command line utility and underlying library for semantically comparing and merging tr... https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/08/28/graphtage/ #researchpractice #safedocs #darpa

Announcing the 1st International Workshop on Smart Contract Analysis - At Trail of Bits we do more than just security audits: We also push the boundaries of research in ... more: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/04/23/announcing-the-1st-international-workshop-on-smart-contract-analysis/ #researchpractice #conferences #blockchain