Super excited to see my poster for VUSec on Delta Pointers being presented today at Eurosys in Porto, Portugal! I'm proud of the researchers for coming up with such a nifty way to prevent buffer overflow attacks, and grateful for the opportunity to learn about it and help them explain to others what they did. It's a pretty wild realization that so much of our world today depends on technology only few people really understand. And even those people are uncovering new vulnerabilities, exploits, and altogether mysteries every day. I have the utmost respect for these experts who keep our machines running and it's quite tragic they rarely get the respect they deserve simply because what they do is so difficult to understand. It's like these ideas are trapped. As an illustrator, to me there are few things more rewarding than freeing trapped ideas. I experienced this with my graphic journalism project for NRC on the refugee crisis, based on research from inside a camp in Greece, and I felt it again when drawing out this research and seeing how it was used. It allowed one of the researchers to explain this to even his non-technical mother, and I'm positive she could pay forward the core idea with the help of this poster. I'm also including some process work where the concept was explained to me 1 on 1 and choosing a composition together. Finally some pics of the poster in action outside at the sunny conference :) I'll be looking for select projects in a similar vein soon. If you're interested or would like to know more, dm or email: info(at)liea(dot)nl