Chapter 8
Reverse Engineering
Introduction
Welcome to one of the coolest and possibly one of the most difficult subjects in all of hackerdom to grasp and master, reverse engineering. What does a hacker need, to be a great reverse engineer? Usually copious amounts of free time, the ability to grasp some abstract concepts (we’ll cover some in this chapter), and a love of figuring out how applications truly work at their core. Reverse engineering is a bit of misnomer for this chapter, as the body of work reverse engineering covers is vast and can cover everything from the physical shell of the MacBook to how Angry Birds keeps score.
What you use reverse engineering tools and techniques for is purely an extension of what question you’re trying to answer. ...
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