Reverse engineering guide for beginners: Methodology and tools
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HN comment orderI highly recommend this guide on how Samba was written, describing the techniques involved on RE [0]. [0] - https://www.samba.org/ftp/tridge/misc/french_cafe.txt
Reversing is an art more than a science, and the most important things to learn are not tools of the trade but habits of thought and approaches to problem solving. I appreciate what this guy is doing by documenting his learning process, it will help him without doubt, but... as an audience - perhaps we should not learn a difficult skill from someone who started their own journey into this subject a few days ago?
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-12 | Reverse engineering guide for beginners: Methodology and toolsFirst breakout · Best thread | ingve | 801 | 63 |
| 2018-12-28 | Reverse Engineering Guide for Beginners: Methodology and toolsLatest 20+ point return | febin | 132 | 21 |
| 2022-10-27 | Reverse engineering guide for beginners: Methodology and tools | metadat | 4 | 0 |