Technique

Reverse engineering

technique:reverse_engineering Also: reverse engineer, reverse engineering, reverse-engineered, reverse-engineering

Analysis and modification of game clients, protocols, packets, and server communication to identify exploitable behavior.

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Direction Predicate Other entity Origin EP
incoming USES Manfred Explicit 7
incoming USES Plaid Parliament of Pwning Explicit 43
incoming USES George Hotz Explicit 43
incoming USES bunnie Derived 45
incoming USES Anthony Explicit 45
incoming USES Elliot Alderson Explicit 49
incoming USES Int80 Explicit 78
incoming USES Eugene Harton Explicit 115
incoming USES Maddie Stone Explicit 127

Claims

Manfred USES Reverse engineering

Manfred says he reverse-engineers games and their client-server protocols.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Manfred EP 7 Details

“For fun I reverse-engineer games and I reverse-engineer how the protocol talks to the server”

Manfred · offsets 4720–4812

Plaid Parliament of Pwning USES Reverse engineering

PPP trained in and used reverse engineering to find vulnerabilities in challenge software.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 43 Details

“learning how to reverse-engineer software like pros”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 27512–27563

“This is what’s called reverse-engineering”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 28809–28850

George Hotz USES Reverse engineering

George Hotz is described as having reverse-engineered the PlayStation 3.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 43 Details

“George reverse-engineered the PlayStation 3”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 47634–47677

bunnie USES Reverse engineering

bunnie wrote about reverse-engineering the Xbox and used hardware research to analyze it.

Derived Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details

“writing about how to reverse engineer the Xbox”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 6137–6183

Anthony USES Reverse engineering

Anthony reverse-engineered machine language to create Halo 3 modifications.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details

“Anthony was good at reverse-engineering things”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 28053–28099

Elliot Alderson USES Reverse engineering

Elliot posts useful information about reverse-engineering and specializes in reverse-engineering applications.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 49 Details

“he’s posting real and useful information about reverse-engineering”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 858–924

“he loves reverse-engineering them”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 1706–1739

Int80 USES Reverse engineering

Int80 says he worked in reverse engineering, including cracking and analyzing copy protection.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details

“I then moved into a position doing reverse-engineering”

Int80 · offsets 44878–44932

Eugene Harton USES Reverse engineering

Eugene describes using a reverse-engineer to determine how acquired cheats broke the game.

Explicit Confidence 94% · Eugene Harton EP 115 Details

“use also our own reverse-engineer to figure out how they are breaking the game”

Eugene Harton · offsets 16931–17009

Maddie Stone USES Reverse engineering

Maddie worked on reverse-engineering firmware and hardware at the Applied Physics Laboratory.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Maddie Stone EP 127 Details

“working on reverse-engineering of firmware and hardware”