Topic created on: December 2, 2009 02:17 CST by
Bitwall 
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While doing reverse engineering for several years,
I recognized that almost every friend of mine is afraid of practicing reverse engineering.
But I think a real reverse engineer isn't allowed to be afraid of anything, except he is pretending to harm others.
Here in Germany the law is very strict, but it's not forbidding reverse engineering for research purporse.
I want to know what do you think about?
Are you afraid?
> Bitwall: While doing reverse engineering for several years,
> I recognized that almost every friend of mine is afraid of practicing reverse engineering.
>
> But I think a real reverse engineer isn\'t allowed to be afraid of anything, except he is pretending to harm others.
>
> Here in Germany the law is very strict, but it\'s not forbidding reverse engineering for research purporse.
>
> I want to know what do you think about?
> Are you afraid?
well, I don't know what are you meaning, but I think the term "afraid" should never be used for a reverse engineer .
a reverse engineer (I mean a real one) is a body with full of curiosity, I think curiosity will refute the afraid .
you're right about the persons who learn from papers/videos and just doing reverse by following tutorials not by him/her self,
personally when I am suspicious about a program / software (not always suspicious as malware ... ), I'm reverse it and follow on what's going on in the software, which protection it has, which API calls it will call and so forth .
but like you I've been seen persons which has afraid from reversing a software alone, I am sure that these like persons have afraid of "breakage" . they think if they could not reverse a software properly then, they're not a good reverser ... but it's unlike the experience.
Always, the experience shows that, every effort that have either success or breakage will result in a big experience.
a quote from albert einstein says :
" anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new ".
finally, I think persons who is scared about reversing a software / binary / etc has never can become a good reverse engineer .
- Genius
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