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Reverse Engineering 101

Published 2 months ago • 1 min read

by Kenny Wolf

Clear Byte decodes the hidden layers of hacking, privacy, and digital systems — delivering academic clarity in byte-sized, actionable insights for tech-curious minds.

Reverse Engineering 101

Reverse Engineering is the art of taking things apart and understand the underlying mechanics without having the source code. In this week's newsletter we deep dive into appliances of reverse engineering.

How To Reverse Engineer Your First Binary

Have you ever wondered how hackers can crack a program?

Imagine the following scenario: You have an executable file, but not the source code. The program needs a password/license key to use it, but you don’t have it. Luckily you know some assembly and can reverse engineer the executable and find out the password.

In this article I give you a brief overview on how reverse engineering works and give you some helpful tools on the way.

What caught my eye this week

Everything is Open Source

... if you can read assembly. Ed from lowlevelcoding demonstrates how you can take binaries apart.

iPhone Air teardown

iFixit has a comprehensive breakdown on how you can tear apart the new iPhone Air and gives a score of 7/10 for repairability.

Not A Robot Challenge

Neal has a lot of cool websites. I found a new one which really challenges your nerves.

Tip of the Week

If you want to deep dive into low level mechanics, then check out the courses from Ed from lowlevel Academy.

He has courses where he shows the In- and Outs of C, the ARM Assembly language and of course Rust. With this knowledge you are prepared to reverse engineer your way through bits and bytes.

Course Page: https://lowlevel.academy/courses​
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