Reverse Engineering Is Reading, Not Writing

People think reverse engineering is about writing exploits. It is not.

It is about reading. Reading assembly. Reading memory layouts. Reading control flow graphs. Reading what a compiler decided to do with someone else’s code.

The better you read, the faster you understand. The faster you understand, the easier everything else becomes.

I spent weeks trying to write before I learned to read. That was backwards.

Now I spend 80% of my time reading and 20% acting on what I found. The results are better.

Patience in reading pays off in precision when it matters.