Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Question Limitations
What are the rules and question Limitations in Reverse Engineering?
Some Questions seems to ask for help in cracking. Is that legitimate? Are we allowed to answer him even if he specifies the program ...
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Are questions about RE applications on topic?
I would like to know in what cases would one want to reverse engineer a piece of software. This is sort of career related but also meant to learn about what kind of knowledge one would get from ...
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What to do with questions of type "Decompile this assembler code"?
Just now, I have edited a question of type "Decompile this assembler code".
It is not the first one and it will not be the last one...
I know that, whatever we do, we will encounter this kind of ...
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Extend the topic to "Software Security"?
I am feeling really good in the RE website, the topics feet me and the discussions are quite interesting. But, then I noticed the IT-security website and tried to see what kind of community was there (...
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Let's get critical: Nov 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from ...
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Should we have a Featured Tag Wiki of the Month™?
Over the past few months, RE has accumulated a lot of quality content in the tag wikis due to the efforts of many our community members. There have been previous discussions on how to effectively ...
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RE needs a logo header!
I think RE is ready for a logo header. Does anyone know any good logo designers and/or have any good ideas for a logo?
I'm not a designer, but I like the idea of the OllyDbg style logo (I just ...
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Detecting malicious behaviour
Reverse Engineering is clearly a 'gray'-area with law. Thus this is why I wonder, what to do when you detect a string of questions or a single questions that is clearly leading to mal-behaviour.
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Let's get critical: Aug 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from ...
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Do we want to give out career-advice?
We have a tag career-advice with one popular question. Career advice is generally considered a can of worms and is off-topic across the entire Network. The main reason being that this attracts a huge ...
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What events would you like to participate in?
We recently concluded a two week long Twitter event, which was very successful.
Based on the response, I think it would be great if we had one to two week long events every month. If successful, ...
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What can be done to make the Twitter account more effective?
Currently, the hashtags added by the Twitter bot is just the most popular tag from the question. In many cases, the tag may be obscure, too broad (#python) or different from common usage (#pe -> ...
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Attaching files (UDP packages)
What is RE preferred way to attach files to a post? Are there any commonly used services? The file in question would be .pcapng UDP packages, but knowing the general procedures would be good.
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Are you following the official RE Twitter account?
If you're a Twitter fan and spend time retweeting questions, you may want to consider following @StackReverseEng.
https://twitter.com/StackReverseEng/
StackReverseEng is the official Reverse ...
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Tracking Area 51 site stats
This post is intended to keep tracks of our Area 51 stats over time and to see our progress towards graduation.
For graduation, the rough criteria are :
Mostly green (Excellent) on the stats page
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How to handle "beginner" questions?
Specifically this is about: How do I get the location of the original audio/video file embedded on a webpage?
I know that this question isn't as deep as others. But on the other hand it is for many ...
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Keeping hardware powered up!
The tag hardware is a very rare tag on RE.SE
HW questions make up just 6% of the total questions on the site. Seeing that reverse engineering hardware is in scope and in many cases, has overlapping ...
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What do we need to change about the chat session?
We have had three chat event sessions till now with minimal participation. The maximum number of people who participated was 3 in the first chat session. There was however significant interest in the ...
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Let's get critical: Jun 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from ...
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Should We Have Reverse Engineering Competitions to Increase Site Participation
A possible technique to increase site participation would be to hold periodic competitions of reverse engineering challenges. The challenges would be custom made for these contests and could include ...
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A proposition for Rising the forum participance and presence [duplicate]
On AshRj suggestion I'm reposing my idea from
How do we increase the number of questions being asked?
I could be wrong but in RE there is a real big gap between experienced and newbies, so what ...
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Community Polls Thread
Welcome to the RE.SE Community Poll thread!
Note: Order answers by active to see the most recent polls.
This thread is used for opinion and usage polls around RE and RE.SE.
The poll questions are ...
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ida versus idapro tags ... the synonym should be the exact inverse, because it's not strictly synonymous
The irritating thing about it is that apparently Igor was the one to introduce the synonym. As he points out in this comment to another meta question:
Actually, the official name of the program (...
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Reverse engineering locks?
I had some questions regarding reverse engineering locks (physical locks/pin tumblers etc). I'm not sure if they'd qualify as questions here though. Any thoughts from anyone?
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What is a “closed” question?
Questions can be closed.
What does it mean for a question to be closed?
Who can close a question?
What are the reasons for closing a question?
What if multiple close reasons are used on a question?
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Our Community Promotion Ads
One way we can promote this site is to create a community promotion ad to be shown on other SE sites. Each graduated SE site has a meta question where people can submit these ads (math, physics), and ...
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How do we increase the number of questions being asked?
I noticed that our new question per day is really low. What can we do to overcome this?
Should we seed more content ourselves?
I can think of few newbies questions I can ask an answer myself. Is it ...
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Should we have a tool to mark beginner, intermediate and advanced level Q&As?
I can see advantages and disadvantages to having a beginner, some of which would be:
Advantages
Allows beginners to find existing questions quickly and search in them
Makes it easy for the casual ...
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Who are the notable bloggers in the RE community, and how can we get them involved?
We have established a repository having some excellent questions. Its now time to get the word out about RE.
There are many people in the online world who manage very active and productive blogs. ...
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specific OS-kernel tags or OS+kernel tags?
Is it interesting to use specific "OS-kernel' tags such as linux-kernel instead of linux kernel combination?
references: initial suggestion, then implementation
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Should we hold a community event in the chat?
There's a chat room for our site and I was just talking to AshRj, wondering how to promote the chat itself. He suggested holding a community event. A moderator would have to create it, but we could ...
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How should complementary tags be handled?
Consider unpacking versus packer. I think we should either stick to naming the entity (noun) or the method (verb) and there should be one covering the topic and its complement for something like the ...
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Should we have a [tag:rce]?
Since the site scope isn't limited to reverse code engineering as such, would it make sense to have a specific tag for questions regarding the reverse engineering of code in particular? I.e. something ...
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To what extent is discussing a specific target for RE allowed
Let's say I have a specific target that I want to RE (for this question let's take a windows PE executable as an example). Would it be ok to post a piece of disassembly or perhaps pseudo code from eg ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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allow moderated list question [duplicate]
I'm aware that some of you won't agree with this. But I really like to have few questions here like "great RE beginners book?" Or "what is your RE toolbox?".
I'm aware that these type of questions ...
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Add anti-RE information to the faq
I totally agree with Gilles that questions about trying to make reverse engineering harder are appropriate, but shouldn't we change our faq then? It's now:
Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange is for ...
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Is Reverse-engineering also about Anti-reverse-engineering? [duplicate]
I recently asked a question about tools helping me to produce an obfuscation on a binary and I have been a bit surprised to see that people were reluctant to answer such a question just because it is ...
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Wargames, crackmes and CTFs - how to deal with spoilers?
Since this site is public now, I guess we shall start to see questions related to
solving challenges on some wargame, solving a crackme and so on... As someone how has learned a great deal by doing ...
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Reputation manipulation [closed]
As I see people's reputations rapidly grow, and become frustrated because it seems impossible to get to a question first, I can't help but wonder if there is manipulation/cheating going on. After all, ...
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What can we improve? The site seems to stagnate
At the moment the stats on Area51 aren't all too promising. While we got through the definition and commitment phase with flying colors, right now the situation is suboptimal.
The number of users ...
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What are the rules here regarding possibly illegal tools for RE?
Because of the nature of reverse engineering, we may possibly use tools of gray or possibly illegal nature to aid our work, even if the work's intention is not for illegal use.
I recently posted an ...
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What is considered too broad or too narrow regarding questions about applicable laws?
Currently on Reverse Engineering, there are two questions I'd like to bring up about the laws surrounding reverse engineering, both asked by the same user:
Is reverse engineering and using parts of a ...
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Are questions containing 'what does this do' on topic?
Over on IT Security we fairly regularly get questions containing a believed-to-be malicious code snippet. The OP is usually a web-admin of some kind and has discovered the snippet on his server, and ...
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Are there no special rules for betas?
A beta that just started will hardly end up with a lot of high rep users in a short time frame. Are there any special rules w.r.t. the reputation needed for certain actions or is it the same as on any ...
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Lets develop a Tag Wiki format
As I have mentioned before (and also mentioned by Tim Post ♦ ), I believe Tag Wikis should be developed right from the start. Good tag wikis will help new users to learn the basics and the ...
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tags: 'exe' or 'portable-executable'?
There is currently the exe tag, which is about .EXE files under Windows, which theoretically covers the DOS MZ, New Executable, and Portable Executable formats.
There are already several questions ...
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Do not accept an answer so fast!
I know, you want to accept an answer to show the problem is solved. But really, the quality of the site can be improved when you do not accept an answer too fast.
An answer might be correct and ...
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Linking to malicious code
I asked a question about obfuscated javascript - the javascript in question is malicious, and contains code to exploit various browsers. In a comment, DCoder asked for the actual obfuscated code.
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should we specify a tag for kernel reverse engineering?
Should kernel reverse engineering have its specific tag?
kernel and user-mode reverse engineering typically rely on different tools, different structures, different methods, so shouldn't something ...
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