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skalidindi3yesterday at 11:59 PM0 repliesview on HN

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I wrote this a LONG while back. At the time, I was fresh out of college and my first job included a lot of reverse engineering communication protocols to make machines work together for automation purposes. I will personally testify to how useful it was to see visual patterns to aid in this. The single biggest benefit was seeing that one particular protocol switched endianness WITHIN a specific packet.