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so reverse engineering seems cool. What skills do you find most useful/versatile/neat/groovy or otherwise necessary for your reverse engineering projects?
by wheelerwj 14y ago
so reverse engineering seems cool. What skills do you find most useful/versatile/neat/groovy or otherwise necessary for your reverse engineering projects?
- daeken 14y agoI can't really narrow it down to a single specific skill. When I'm reversing, my steps are generally: figure out how I would design the system, come up with a set of assumptions based on that, check the assumptions as quickly as possible, then refactor your model of the system based on what you find. It's really all about making educated guesses and then checking those; as you gain experience, you start making better guesses.
- wheelerwj 14y agookay very cool. the scientific method, rinse, repeat. how long have you been reversing?
- daeken 14y agoAbout a decade now, probably. Started with MMOs, specifically Everquest, then moved on to DRM (which, oddly enough, is what I was in Forbes for last time), then on to locks and other hardware.