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ctxcyesterday at 5:26 PM3 repliesview on HN

It's insane, right? Reverse engineering is so much fun, I find myself doing it on random apps so often now


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qingcharlesyesterday at 10:18 PM

0x Alpha is unlimited free tokens this weekend so I had it take apart the original 8088 PC Elite and reverse it back to original MASM assembler and come up with plausible names for all the functions and data structures and check that it compiles back to byte-perfect original.

Wild!

bpavukyesterday at 5:40 PM

it's especially fun when you do it yourself, I advise toying around with https://crackmes.one. with time and practice, everything becomes open-source because you can read assembly XD

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jaggederestyesterday at 5:54 PM

We're entering an age where doing binary modification on live binaries is not a huge deal. Everything is now open "source"?

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