debrainers

im debrainers.
i take software apart to see how it actually works.

Most of my time goes into Ghidra and x64dbg. Unpacking binaries, tracing protocols, keeping notes on the parts that were interesting. It is slow work, but the four pass rule holds up. Somewhere around the fourth read of the same function, the shape of the thing finally makes sense.

Python when I need a script or a parser. HTML and CSS when a front end is needed. Enough JavaScript to not regret it.

$ whoami
reverse engineer / low level tinkerer

$ ls ./toolkit
ghidra  ida  x64dbg  radare2  frida  pwntools

$ cat focus.txt
"read the assembly, not the docs."

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The work I care about is slow and mostly invisible from the outside. You read a function, guess at what it does, test the guess, and usually find out you were wrong. Then you read it again. The interesting parts are rarely where you expect them to be.

I write in Python when something needs a script, a parser, or automation around a tool that was not built to be automated. I know HTML and CSS well enough to build a clean page, and JavaScript well enough to not break it.

I'm 16, in Dortmund. German and English both fluent, Russian I can understand but not really speak. Off screen it's music, and games when there's time.

im debrainers.
i take software apart to see how it actually works.

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