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Linux Reverse Engineering CTFs for Beginners

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Re: Linux Reverse Engineering CTFs for Beginners

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As someone who is not very knowledgeable about the field, I find reverse engineering fascinating. One thing I've been curious about is the economics of the security industry and the role reverse engineering plays in it. To my novice eyes it seems that reverse engineering is more of an academic exercise and I don't see any direct ways to commercialize that skillset. How do you make a living doing this? Are you essenti…

There are plenty of money to be made, just not in the way you typically do with other kinds of software. For example, a company named Bossland reversed many popular games and made bots for those. Their most recent effort was Pokémon Go. Nobody has reversed the newest versions of Pokémon Go and I believed you can make millions off it if you play your cards right.

Not really ethical though.

Re: Linux Reverse Engineering CTFs for Beginners

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I recommend anyone who is attempting to do a ctf reversing challenge to checkout r2. https://rada.re/r/ It's a free and open source set of tools specifically for reverse engineering. There are some commercial options as well such as HexRays IDA Pro (probably the defacto standard tool) and binary ninja.

Do you use Cutter or the CLI?

I use the CLI when I use it (mind you; it's largely for CTF style questions most of the time).
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