Anyway, so much for the introduction. This was not the first time I debugged binaries with someone else, but in the past I always had the keyboard. This time I staid in the background and observed what happened. Primarily a software developer and only a hobbyist reverse engineer, I compared what I saw to pair programming where two people sit in front of the same computer and write code together. While I believe that pair programming is at least moderately useful, I got the impression that there are serious problems with pair reverse engineering (or quad reverse engineering).

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