SecuriTEA & Crumpets is a series where security professionals come together to talk about their background, research, and interesting topics. The fifth episode is with Parsia Hakimian. He is a senior security engineer at Electronic Arts, Parsia has spoken at defcon on blockchain hacking and has a wide expertise in hacking games, thick clients, and modern web technologies. Parsia documents most of his brain on his blog https://parsiya.net/ and ramblings on his twitter https://twitter.com/CryptoGangsta.
In this episode, Parsia reverse engineers the cryptomagic protocol of Nordpass' browser extension. This involves Reversing JavaScript with VS Code's symbol renaming!
00:00 Intro
2:05 Life at EA Games
6:10 What technical skills are required to test video games?
12:37 Thick Clients
26:36 Parsia Clone
29:41 Manual Work Is A Bug
33:33 ESLinter
36:58 Live demo of debugging chrome extensions