A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers

Re:A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers by poincaredisk on Saturday June 29, 2024 @09:05AM (#40830195)

>However, legal avenues to do so are far in between and it requires a huge amount of time and help from peers.

I reverse engineer things for a living and I have many peers worldwide who do the same. My main field of work is malware analysis.

For recreation, in my country it's explicitly legal to reverse engineer things you own, with a purpose of making it work on your system (think: fixing a windows XP game so it works on windows 10). This is a very broad loophole, and let's you reverse engineer things in most cases when they "feel" like they should be legal.

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Re:A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers by 8372049 on Saturday June 29, 2024 @09:23AM (#40830309)

This applies to the entire EEA, fortunately!

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Re:A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers by Arech on Sunday July 07, 2024 @09:57AM (#40897778)

Can you maybe share more details, where I can read about this? Thanks!

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Re:A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers by cess11 on Saturday June 29, 2024 @11:28AM (#40831250)

Reversing for the purpose of integrations is commonly also legal.

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Re:A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers by Arech on Sunday July 07, 2024 @09:58AM (#40897781)

Can you please also share more details, where I can read about this? Thanks!

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Re:A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers by Arech on Sunday July 07, 2024 @09:58AM (#40897786)

Can you please share more details about the loophole you've mentioned?

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