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Quan Chi2

Does anyone have any good tutorials on reverse engineering? Im looking for some and wondering if you guys had any tutorials.

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:53 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

There are tons of things you can reverse engineer, would you like to be specific?

Like, are you trying to determine how parts of your cellphone works so you could add extra hardware to it? Reverse engineer the XBox 360? Taking apart your dryer to remove the overly loud buzzing noise in your new apartment? Strip out Continuum's encryption code? Extending your house's plumbing system to a new room/floor? Figuring out the secret ingredients to gummy bears?

Quan Chi2 · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:55 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Software.

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:05 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

What part of software? You looking into figuring out a networking protocol? Trying to determine how the software interacts with other software on the same system? Custom designing a parallel port application for a really old IBM PS/2 case LCD? Stripping out ASM directly from an application and reusing it without actually knowing how it works? Trying to find which ASM to strip out? Deciphering a proprietary file format? Hijacking a running application to send it messages it wasn't originally designed for, and handling functions instead with your own? Trying to change the icon for Word?

Quan Chi2 · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:11 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Everything. Okay? Then it covers all bases. Oh, but that stripping out ASM directly from an app and reusing without actually knowing how it works sounds good.

Anything you have or can find on it, I want. I want to read all of it and try anything I can. I have time to learn. So, anything you can find. Probably server software is what I mainly want to reverse engineer, but anything else too.

**edit: Ah, okay master guru MGB. I see what you did. You gave me things to search. lol Excellent work. Wow. lol. You didnt have to speak in riddles lol.

Chambahs · Power attack Joined: Jun 19 2005 Posts: 820 Offline

Lol, MGB cracks me the fuck up....

Why didnt you use the...HANDY DANDY GOOGLE TAG?

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:16 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Actually, I wasn't trying to get him to Google on his own, as I knew he wouldn't. He asked a very open ended question, I just tried to narrow it down. I assumed from the start he is trying to do something illicit with Continuum or ASSS and teased the information out of him.

BDwinsAlt · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:20 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Please Please Please tell me he isn't going to work with ASSS.
I don't want ASSS to get a bad reputation.

Muskrat · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:23 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I re-plumbed a bathroom once, that stuff sucks. Crawling around under houses, soddering that crap, reading about all the different valves and stuff you need. Next time I'll take being gouged by some fat plumber.

Quan Chi2 · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:31 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

What I want to do has nothing to do with Continuum. Its an interesting subject to explore, and I want to get in on it. Str0ke told me about DefCon and I googled some footage of previous DefCons. I saw the 2005 version and one of the contests consisted of reverse engineering. I heard about it once before but never researched it, so I want to learn now.

Doc Flabby · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:28 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

reverse engineering is hard....having had a small go at revese egineering continuum reallised i was wayy outta my depth

, but i got a debugger to attach which is not very easy to do...

You need to understand how the computer and os works. And u need to understand assembly to reverse engineer...
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Sercit · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:36 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Chambahs · Power attack Joined: Jun 19 2005 Posts: 820 Offline

A more recent example of this behavior found here

Assassin2684 · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:17 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Yes acctually that was a perfect example.

Cerium · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:56 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

(Deactived B l a h e r) · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:24 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Quan Chi2 · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:30 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

My question was open ended, but it was open ended for a reason. I want ANY tutorials you guys found on the subject as a whole. I could have been specific if I wanted something specific, but thats not the case.

Cerium · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:46 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Its too open-ended, thats your problem. Its not some magical language or art that people master, its just a process using various bits of knowledge. What you need to know heavily depends on what youre trying to do, hence all the questions.

Quan Chi2 · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:53 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Oh, okay. Fair enough.

BDwinsAlt · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:00 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:17 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Install Age of Empires II, decompress empires2_x1.dat (it's raw DEFLATE), and figure out what all that crap is.

That's what I'm working on right now.

PS: The above post was just scary.
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Animate Dreams · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:13 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Yet it makes me sad, because Cerium has never flamed me.... 8(

Solo Ace · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:01 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Code: Show/Hide

21:55 < nano[coding]> http://forums.minegoboom.com/viewtopic.php?t=6484
21:55 -!- kollek is now known as [myg0t]h4x^^
21:56 <%Most_Wanted> what are u coding?
21:56 <+nycto> nano[coding]: wtf you go to mgb forums?
21:56 -!- WhYnoR [~myself@lcirc-5EC05E9E.tbcn.telia.com] has quit [Quit: ( www.nnscript.de :: NoNameScript 4.02 :: www.XLhost.de )]
21:56 < nano[coding]> yes
21:56 <+nycto> happen to play continuum?
21:56 < nano[coding]> yes
21:56 <+nycto> fucker
21:56 <+nycto> whats your alias?
21:56 < nano[coding]> lol?
21:56 <+nycto> lol
21:56 < nano[coding]> Quan
21:56 <+nycto> quan chi?
21:56 < nano[coding]> of course
21:57 < nano[coding]> Im Quan Chi2

Right.

Quan Chi2 · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:05 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

You're a funny guy.

Solo Ace · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:06 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Is this real? I'm not the nycto person... that was ntfx.