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most of you know i reverse engineer things for a living, or well, sort of

most of you know i reverse engineer things for a living, or well, sort of but the thing nobody tells you about reverse engineering and security research is that it..... quietly wrecks the way you look at people. (at least the way i see it, and this is a pattern i also noticed in friends) it does so permanently. and nobody warns you about that part going in it is pretty simple to understand; you get a binary. but you never get the source, you never get the comments, you never get the person who wrote it; really you just get the artifact, and you get what it does, and from those two things,…

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