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Reverse Engineering

Proposed Q&A site for reverse engineering: The process of discovering the technological principles of a device, object or system through analysis of its structure, function and operation. It is actually "going backwards through the development cycle" in all engineering!
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I hate to so blatantly promote my own proposal, but why wouldn't this (and other engineering proposals) be more successful as part of a more comprehensive engineering stack exchange? – Colin K Jan 20 '11 at 21:52
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Reverse Engineering is a niche subject rapidly growing in popularity and very different from forward thinking engineering. Regarding your proposal: Trying to shove all engineering topics into a single SE site is ridiculous. People would never be able to find the questions they are capable of answering. For the same reason, I strongly feel that Reverse Engineering needs its own SE site. – Rob S. Jan 20 '11 at 22:00
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Reverse engineering is a natural part of all engineering disciplines. Debugging software is reverse engineering, following traces on a PCB is reverse engineering. Stripping down a car engine to discover how it works is reverse engineering. I think the topic is best handled through a common tag across sites of experts from each field. Eg. stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/… – Joby Taffey Jan 20 '11 at 23:32
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Top Example Questions

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I've reverse engineered a well known product and found a serious security vulnerability; how do I responsibly disclose it?

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Help Me Understand This Binary File Format

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What are some of the best practices for obfuscation to fight back against reverse engineers?

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I'm trying to learn bumping (lock picking); can someone give me a few pointers?

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Is there any way to reverse engineer a Core Data 'mom' file (compiled core data model)?


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"Had this as a hobby in past (GBA and PSP homebrew SDK bugfixes), did some security testing professionally. Will be able to answer some questions."
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"I enjoy trying to figure out how programs works and then improve them... why stop at software?"
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"Reverse engineering is awesome! Will provide any help I can on x86 asm, PE file reversing and file format reversing."
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