How apps spot an Android emulator (part 1): build props and kernel tells
How apps spot an Android emulator (part 1): build props and kernel tells I spent a few days this month poking at a stock Android emulator to answer…
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REA: Let Your AI Agent Reverse Engineer the App Features You Wish You Had
You are using an app and notice a feature that just works. Instant offline search. A clever sync behavior. A smooth update flow. You want something…
Obfuscating AES Keys in Self-Contained Rust Desktop Apps
Obfuscating AES Keys in Self-Contained Rust Desktop Apps If you ship a desktop app that bundles encrypted resources (a game, an Electron-style web a…
I Asked a Frontier LLM to Recover Secrets from My Decompiled Build
The clean way to protect application logic is to keep it on a server, out of reach. When it has to live in the client, anyone can pull apart and ana…
I reverse-engineered a webcam so Claude could point it at things
The OBSBOT Tiny 2 is a webcam bolted to a motorized gimbal. It pans, it tilts, it zooms, and it has an on-device AI that follows you around the room…
A formally-verified OCaml tool to recover RPG Maker assets — one binary, zero deps
RPG Maker games ship their assets encrypted. If you need to get them back legitimately — recovering your own project, a lost encryption key, an auth…
I Built a Fully Autonomous AI Reverse-Engineering Agent in Go
Jurig (Sundanese: ghost ) — an autonomous AI agent that haunts your binaries. .-. ██ ██ ██ ██████ ██ ██████ (o o) ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ | u | ██ ██ █…
I replaced hooking libraries with one rust crate
TL;DR: I've shipped hooks with different libs before. I even wrote own hooks in assembly, expected the usual C++ headache, and instead found neohook…
Malware Unpacking & Anti-Analysis Bypass: A Deep Dive into Real-World Techniques
Malware authors don't make our job easy. Every time we think we've figured out their tricks, they layer on another obfuscation technique, another an…
Reverse engineering a DJI Mavic Pro remote: meeting the DUML protocol
A hobby project on the side. I bought a Mavic Pro Gen1 shell and its GL200A remote for a few euros, sold as non-functional. Rather than just repairi…
I reverse-engineered my motorcycle's Bluetooth protocol to put Google Maps on the dashboard
My motorcycle has a Bluetooth instrument cluster. It pairs with the manufacturer's phone app and shows turn-by-turn navigation right on the dash, wh…
Don't fork the code — fork the design: introducing DeepFork
When I want to learn from a library I admire, my instinct is to read the code. But reading code and understanding a design are two different problem…
Reverse engineering Codex CLI rollout traces
Reverse engineering Codex CLI rollout traces I spent a weekend building a DeepSeek proxy for Codex CLI so I could generate real tracing data. The pr…
I lost my TV remote, so I built one with an Arduino
So, yesterday my primary TV suddenly stopped working, it's a Sony Bravia. What happened?… well god knows… and believe me, sony has no clue even afte…
Deep inside the COM: Reading Windows ROT Without Asking Permission. Detective story
This is Part 4 of the "Inside the Running Object Table" series. Parts 1-3 covered the public COM API and rpcss internals. This one is about going fu…