Facing the problems of personal data industrialization, many technical and legal solutions have been proposed. Pro-privacy legislation and new design patterns try to make engineers and merchants more responsible. Although these efforts must be maintained from these actors, we believe that such a consideration for privacy, focused on commercial transactions, leaves the individual subjects and th...

While reverse engineering probably started with the analysis of hardware, today it plays a significant role in the software world. We discuss some of its uses and explain security related issues like malicious software and software piracy. It is shown how tools such as disassemblers and decompilers can help in this process, and why it is difficult to completely protect software from being rever...

Segmenting garments from humanoid meshes or point clouds is a challenging problem with applications in the textile industry and in model based motion capturing. In this work we present a physically based template-matching technique for the automatic extraction of garment dimensions from 3D meshes or point clouds of dressed humans. The successfull identification of garment dimensions also allows...

In the realm of Product Line Engineering (PLE), Variability Management is one of the key issues. The success of the whole product line approach relies on the correctness of the variability models. Unfortunately, before transiting to PLE, knowledge on the variability is not addressed explicitly, but embedded in many development artefacts. This pattern provides an approach to extract that hidden ...

Modern technologies allow web sites to be dynamically managed by building pages on-the-fly through scripts that get data from a database. Dissociation of data from layout directives provides easy data update and homogeneous presentation. However, many web sites still are made of static HTML pages in which data and layout information are interleaved. This leads to out-of-date information, incons...

Introduction Reverse engineering aims at obtaining high level representations of programs. Reverse engineers typically start with a low level representation of a system (such as binaries, plain source code, or execution traces), and try to distill more abstract representations from these (such as, for the examples just given, source code, architectural views, or use cases, respectively). Revers...

Modern day programmers are increasingly making the switch from traditional compiled languages such as C and C++ to interpreted dynamic languages such as Ruby and Python. Interpreted languages are gaining popularity due to their flexibility, portability, and ease of development. However, these benefits are sometimes counterbalanced by new security exposures that developers are often unaware of. ...

In the presence of spontaneous symmetry breaking, the alignment of the vacuum with respect to the gauge group is often controlled by quadratically divergent operators in the low energy non-linear sigma model. In principle the magnitudes and signs of these operators can be changed by making different assumptions about the ultraviolet physics, but in practice all known ways of regulating these th...

Many network servers rely on the correctness and security of closed protocols. However, the unavailability of the protocol specification hinders any attempt to adequately test the implementations of that protocol. The paper addresses this problem by complementing an attack injection methodology with a protocol reverse engineering component. We introduce a new approach to automatically infer the...