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Re:Petya: “I Want to Believe” by Filligree on Friday June 30, 2017 @09:26AM (#14670540)
That's not full reverse engineering. They're removing the protection, with a clearly defined goal they can look at to see if they're done, and that's all.

Very different from trying to figure out everything a program does.

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Re:Petya: “I Want to Believe” by Forge36 on Friday June 30, 2017 @01:22PM (#14672195)
In the case of peyta: is that necessary? There are 2 pieces I know of someone would want to change, the Bitcoin wallet and removing the Killswitch.

Surely this is easier then a full understanding of the code?

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