Learning Reverse Engineering

TheBoostedBrain writes "Mike Perry and Nasko Oskov have written a very complete article about reverse engineering. It provides an introduction to reverse engineering software under both Linux and Windows."

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Betting pool anyone?

[Surak]

How long before this site is taken down for DMCA violations?

Immature

[mslinux]

Quote from the introduction of the book:

"We don't know about you, but to us, software that we don't have source code to just pisses us off. So we figure: screw it, lets do some damage. :)"

Cheap comments like this really degrade this book.

Re:README: From the Authors

[Dunkalis]

Nobody should use RAR. WinZip opens tarballs properly. Every OS on earth has the ability to open tarballs, and they are better. gzip has better compression, you never get the weird problems you get with unzip, etc. So be intelligent and think before you call something like RAR a standard. Zip works fine, but if you're aiming for 100% cross-platform, tarballs are king. PS: Tarballs are used on every Unix and Unix clone OS in existence, not just Linux.

Banned from bibliographies

[yerricde]

Is it supposed to cause certain groups of people to turn their noses up at this? What group would that be?

How about the "I'm not going to cite this book in a bibliography because I cite only works that I would recommend to fellow professionals, who by the way do not appreciate obscene humor in the context of their jobs" group?

I can't think of any group or person with that reaction who would be of the inclination to reverse engineer things.

You mean like Compaq? Lots of Big Corporations(tm) reverse-engineer their competitors' products in order to learn how to interoperate. Such reverse engineering is exempt to an extent from the DMCA's circumvention ban (17 USC 1201) when under the supervision of an entity that can fund a legal defense.