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Hey all!I’ve been working on getting Mandiant’s capa (a tool for identifying capabilities in executables) to run entirely client-side in the browser using Pyodide.To make this happen, I’ve been working through the capa dependency tree to ensure all upstream packages publish an sdist or pure-Python wheels. We’ve finally reached the point where it’s possible to run capa to analyze binaries in a browser using the vivisect backend.The long-term goal is to upstream these changes to the official mandiant/capa repository. I’d love for people to try it out and let me know how the performance feels or if you run into any quirks.Again, a live version can be found here: https://surfactant.readthedocs.i

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Website: surfactant.readthedocs.io/en/latest/capa