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2013-03-20T19:26:40.543 | <p>Yes, it is possible to create a community wiki answer. But there is rarely any case for it. Community wiki was primarily useful in the old days when there was a minimum reputation requirement to edit posts. Now, anyone can suggest an edit (which will be reviewed if the editor doesn't have enough reputation), so comm... | |support|community-wiki| | Does the private beta have community wiki? | 15 | <p>Coming from <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/59/what-are-the-essential-ida-plugins-or-ida-python-scripts-that-you-use#comment60_59">this comment</a>: is it possible to create a community wiki during the private beta?</p>
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2013-03-20T22:36:17.163 | <p>During the beta period, it is important to generate reputation in the system so that users can start performing tasks other than simply asking and answering. As an example, at the moment we have just 3 users who have the privilege of reviewing Tag Wiki edits, the result being that such edits need approval from someo... | |discussion|voting| | Do we want to be a high-voting site? | 20 | <p>Some stack exchange sites get lots of both upvotes and downvotes for question and answers. Others get much fewer votes. Do we want to be a high-voting site?</p>
<p>Here is one perspective from <a href="https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/users/77/scott-morrison">Scott Morrison</a> over on meta.Tex.SE
<ul>
<li><p>Ev... |
2013-03-20T23:18:25.030 | <p>Yes, sure. The expertise on making reverse engineering easier is the same as the expertise on making the reverse engineering harder. Just as <a href="https://security.stackexchange.com/">Security</a> caters to both attackers and defenders, RE.SE can but cater to both obfuscators and reversers.</p>
| |discussion|scope| | Are questions about trying to make reverse engineering harder appropriate? | 21 | <p>I'm wondering if questions about how to make reverse engineering more difficult are within the scope of this site?</p>
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2013-03-22T12:43:43.287 | <p>The example questions proposed on Area 51 are supposed to be questions you would ask on the actual site. Now the site is here, so if you have a question, ask it. I'm not entirely certain why someone might object if the question was inspired by Area 51.</p>
<p>The problem with the specific question you cited is that... | |discussion|asking-questions| | Is it possible to take questions directly from the area 51 site? | 28 | <p>I've noticed quite a few questions whose gists are extremely similar to example questions suggested during the definition phase. Some have been closed and downvoted, others have gone on to become some of the top questions on this site.</p>
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<li><a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/13... |
2013-03-24T16:36:49.653 | <p>That's the whole point of the site: being about reverse engineering of anything. If we start splitting, then software reverse engineering goes on Stack Overflow, hardware reverse engineering goes on Electrical Engineering, chemical reverse engineering goes on Chemistry, and so on, and this site needn't exist.</p>
| |discussion|scope| | The site tends to attract two different fields of profession | 45 | <p>When I look at the site for now, I generally distinguish two different topics:</p>
<ul>
<li>Questions about computer software, websites, etc., e.g.: <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/q/90/187">Get used jQuery plugins from website</a></li>
<li>Questions about really low-level things, like microco... |
2013-03-24T17:58:29.280 | <p>On Stack Overflow, I think the singular dominates but there's no agreement. Most newer Stack Exchange sites tend to favor plural tags for countable objects, e.g. <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compilers" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'compilers'" rel="t... | |discussion|tags| | What should be the policy for singular/plural tags? | 46 | <p>Should tags be singular like <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compiler" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'compiler'" rel="tag">compiler</a> or plural like <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debuggers" class="post-tag" titl... |
2013-03-24T18:32:57.160 | <p>Although the FAQ quote is arguably describing your question, I think the community consensus is quite clear. The skills and expertise required to reverse engineer a program, a firmware or a security chip are in very different than the expertise and knowledge needed to recognise which CMS system is used to generate H... | |discussion|scope|specific-question| | Typicals of CMSs - off topic? | 47 | <p>I've asked <a href="https://security.stackexchange.com/q/33139/21287">this question</a> on RE.SE and got a negative response: 4 downvotes and a note from Anton Kockkov:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>This is a question for IT Security site, not for Reverse Engineering.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I see how this is on topic on IT ... |
2013-03-27T19:43:41.053 | <p>I realize there is a fine line between debuggers being used in software development and in RCE, but we shouldn't shy away from questions concerning dual-use tools just because they are dual-use.</p>
<hr>
<p>As for the <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/243">How does GDB's process r... | |discussion|scope| | Is asking about reverse engineering tools on topic | 66 | <p>I would like to know if asking about the use of a tool that is designed for the purposes of reverse engineering is on topic?</p>
<p>The questions that follow under this category would be asking about software that is used for reverse engineering where the answer would help the community reverse engineer with that t... |
2013-03-29T13:08:56.550 | <p><strong>No, do not duplicate an already answered SO question unless you need additional information that only the reverse engineering audience can provide.</strong> We want to minimize the duplication of content between the sites as much as possible because it is very easy for content to be lost and become out of da... | |discussion|scope| | Is it OK to duplicate information from SO? | 74 | <p>If a question has already been asked on SO, is it OK to repost questions with a self-answer (FAQ style) if they are very relevant to RE (e.g. useful questions about disassemblers, assembly language questions, etc)?</p>
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2013-04-02T13:21:03.410 | <p>Okay, as I outlined already in my comments, I am also doing this on other SE sites: i.e. <em>not</em> accepting too quickly. It may lead to forgetting to accept an <em>existing</em> answer temporarily, but inside your profile a nagging notice will appear over questions you have asked but on which you didn't accept a... | |discussion|answer-quality|answers|accepted-answer| | Do not accept an answer so fast! | 88 | <p>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 <em>do not accept an answer too fast</em>. </p>
<p>An answer might be correct and useful, but there may be much better answers out there! When an answer is already accepted, this discoura... |
2013-04-03T17:28:39.513 | <p>Just adding to what Gilles mentioned, the rep limits for the various privileges vary depending on what phase the site is in. Here is the complete list :</p>
<h3>Main sites</h3>
<pre>
Action Priv ß Public ß Golden SO
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────... | |discussion| | Are there no special rules for betas? | 98 | <p>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 other SE network site for betas, too?</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<ul>
<li>adding new tags</li>
<li>editing without the e... |
2013-04-05T08:44:16.823 | <p>While it's <em>technically</em> possible to migrate questions, the migration paths are not set up until a site becomes well-established. </p>
<p>But beyond that technical limitation, building this community from the old, pre-answered questions of another site would do <strong><em>this</em></strong> site a terrible ... | |support|migration| | Is it possible to migrate a question from other stackexchange sites to Reverse Engineering? | 107 | <p>Just wondering, is it already possibly to <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/91381/how-to-migrate-question-to-programmers-stackexchange-com">migrate questions</a> from other stackexchange sites such as stackoverflow to Reverse Engineering?</p>
<p>Same for questions like this <a href="https://stackove... |
2013-04-07T17:42:50.613 | <p>HTTPS connections to the questions and answers site have been requested for a long time but are currently not supported.</p>
<p>If you're using Stack Exchange as your OpenID provider, you can connect to <a href="https://stackexchange.com/">https://stackexchange.com/</a> and log in there. Even if you connect to <a h... | |feature-request|status-planned| | HTTPS\SSL authentication for users | 122 | <p>As I suddenly figured out, there is plain HTTP used on log-in form to <a href="http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com">http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com</a></p>
<p>No SSL\HTTPS implemented, and password in login form transferred in clear text.
As You may see, this is not secure at all.</p>
<p><stron... |
2013-04-09T10:16:39.243 | <h1>suggestion</h1>
<p>just use</p>
<blockquote class="spoiler">
<p> the spoiler marker: <code>>!</code></p>
</blockquote>
<p>for</p>
<blockquote class="spoiler">
<p> each separate items</p>
</blockquote>
<p>and</p>
<hr />
<blockquote class="spoiler">
<p> enough separators</p>
</blockquote>
<p>so that</p>
<blockquot... | |discussion| | Wargames, crackmes and CTFs - how to deal with spoilers? | 131 | <p>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 such challenges myself, I can appreciate the value of doing the actual research and discovery process myself, and woul... |
2013-04-15T13:12:27.330 | <p>Oh, look: <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/badges/30/beta">45 of 'em, hot off the forge</a>.</p>
| |bug|status-completed|badges| | Where are the beta badges? | 145 | <p>The private beta is over and no one has been awarded the <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/badges/30/beta">Beta badge</a> yet. Seeing that some users even fulfilled their commitment within the private beta itself along with being active on Meta, I dont think its possible that nobody crossed the t... |
2013-04-16T21:35:40.723 | <p>In my opinion, whenever anyone mentions "Reverse Engineering," everyone's thoughts jump straight to reverse code engineering. RCE should be implied, unless there are other tags such as <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ree" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'ree&#... | |discussion| | Should we have a [tag:rce]? | 153 | <p>Since the site scope isn't limited to <em>reverse <strong>code</strong> engineering</em> as such, would it make sense to have a specific tag for questions regarding the <strong>reverse engineering of code</strong> in particular? I.e. something like <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagg... |
2013-04-16T21:46:50.667 | <p>Good catch. <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/winapi" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'winapi'" rel="tag">winapi</a> Done.</p>
| |feature-request|support|status-completed| | Could we rename [tag:windows-api] to [tag:winapi]? | 154 | <p>Could we rename <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/windows-api" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'windows-api'" rel="tag">windows-api</a> to <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/winapi" class="post-tag" title="show questions t... |
2013-04-17T01:35:37.437 | <p>There is no need for misspelled versions of a tag. As the tag has now been removed (and is not used by any question), it will get deleted in some time.</p>
<p>Also, as we are following the policy of having plural tags, <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/disassemblers" class="post... | |support|status-completed|tag-synonyms| | Could someone alias [tag:dissasembler] (see spelling) to [tag:disassembler], please? | 161 | <p>Subject line says it all: Could someone alias <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dissasembler" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'dissasembler'" rel="tag">dissasembler</a> (see spelling) to <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/... |
2013-04-17T03:19:28.487 | <p>The tags which appear in the <code>see also</code> field are the tags which are synonyms of the actual tag. </p>
<p>If you hover over your name in the top panel, you will see an expanded scorecard. On the top of the scorecard you will see <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/privileges">Privilege... | |support|tags|tag-wiki| | Where does the "see also" come from in a tag excerpt? | 164 | <p>How can we control what is shown in the "see also" of the mouse-over tool tip that is shown when hovering over a tag name?</p>
<p>An example of this is given in <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/improved-tagging/">the second screenshot over in this blog post</a>.</p>
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2013-04-23T18:00:49.130 | <p>Embedding videos is enabled on a <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66397/provide-a-way-to-embed-videos-in-answers">per-site basis</a>. They are enabled for Gaming.SE (<a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/21640/how-to-unlock-the-achievements-related-to-hidden-areas-in-portal-2">example<... | |support| | Is there a way to upload instructional videos that will get embedded the way images get embedded? | 183 | <p>Is there a method to embed an instructional video clip in a Q&A the way this can be done with images? Basically what I am asking is whether there is a dedicated space to upload such stuff to similar to how the default image embedding ends up on imgur.</p>
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2013-04-26T15:47:11.477 | <p>get rid of downvoting very frustrating feature as it doesnt tell you why something is being downoted</p>
| |discussion|site-promotion|questions| | How do we increase the number of questions being asked? | 186 | <p>I noticed that our new question per day is really low. What can we do to overcome this?</p>
<p>Should we seed more content ourselves?</p>
<p>I can think of few newbies questions I can ask an answer myself. Is it good practice to do so on beta?</p>
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2013-04-28T01:45:43.467 | <p>I am very bad at making pictures, but what about a picture of a magnifying glass on a bunch of lines of code. And, through the magnifying glass we can see the hexadecimal code ? Something like this (but better shaped):</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/r3Ow0.png" alt="logo1"></p>
| |discussion|site-promotion| | Our Community Promotion Ads | 188 | <p>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 (<a href="https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3278/community-promotion-ads-2012">math</a>, <a href="https://physics.meta.stackex... |
2013-05-04T02:24:28.300 | <h2>What does it mean for a question to be <em>closed</em>?</h2>
<p>When a question is closed, no additional answers may be posted to it, although the question and existing answers can still be edited (by users with edit privileges) and voted upon, and will continue to count for badges. The asker of a closed question... | |discussion|faq|closed-questions|close-reasons| | What is a “closed” question? | 200 | <p>Questions can be <em>closed</em>.</p>
<ul>
<li>What does it mean for a question to be closed?</li>
<li>Who can close a question?</li>
<li>What are the reasons for closing a question?</li>
<li>What if multiple close reasons are used on a question?</li>
<li>Is closure the end of the road for a question?</li>
<li>When... |
2013-05-17T13:47:21.003 | <p>Poof! They are gone. </p>
<hr>
<p>On a serious note, that is normal behavior. Those questions were tagged with <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ida" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'ida'" rel="tag">ida</a> <em>before</em> the synonym relation to <a href="... | |bug|status-completed|tag-synonyms| | Questions exist tagged 'ida' and 'idapro' | 209 | <p>The tag <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ida" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'ida'" rel="tag">ida</a> is a synonym for <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/idapro" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'idapro&... |
2013-05-23T12:52:57.713 | <p>I had a look at the IDA website, and the software comes in three versions as stated in the question, freeware, IDA Starter and IDA Professsional. IDA seems to be the correct tag that encompasses all these. Hence, <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ida" class="post-tag" title="show... | |discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms| | ida versus idapro tags ... the synonym should be the exact inverse, because it's not strictly synonymous | 212 | <p>The irritating thing about it is that apparently <a href="https://reverseengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/60/igor-skochinsky">Igor</a> was the one to introduce the synonym. As he points out in this comment to another <a href="https://reverseengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/209/245">meta question</a>:</p>... |
2013-06-01T03:00:58.910 | <h1>Final Results</h1>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1909/how-to-display-memory-zones-content-on-ida-pro">How to display memory zones content on IDA Pro?</a></p>
<p><strong>Net Score: 7</strong> (Excellent: 7, Satisfactory: 8, Needs Improvement: 0)</p>
</li>
<li><p><a href=... | |discussion|site-evaluation| | Let's get critical: Jun 2013 Site Self-Evaluation | 221 | <p>We all love <a href="http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com">Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange</a>, 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 Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look ... |
2013-06-06T12:05:55.180 | <p>The blurb has been changed making it of almost constant length for all sites. </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iMlLc.png" alt=""></p>
| |bug|status-completed| | Incorrect positioning of tour button | 225 | <p><kbd>Take the tour</kbd> is floating at the wrong place.
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ClnU9.png" alt=""></p>
<p>The <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/OIXtW.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">position varies</a> by a few pixels from time to time. </p>
<p>My browser is Chromium Version 25.0.1364.160 on Ubuntu 12... |
2013-07-07T10:59:13.077 | <p>The event is now over.</p>
<p>Our Twitter account went from having 13 followers to <strong>23</strong> followers during the event! </p>
<p>@StackReverseEng is the second most followed account for all beta sites <1 year old.</p>
| |discussion|site-promotion|community| | Are you following the official RE Twitter account? | 238 | <p>If you're a Twitter fan and spend time retweeting questions, you may want to consider following @StackReverseEng.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/StackReverseEng/" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/StackReverseEng/</a></p>
<p>StackReverseEng is the official Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange Twitter account c... |
2013-07-19T15:27:24.377 | <p>Two solutions that come to my mind are :</p>
<ul>
<li>If possible, an additional hashtag be used <code>#reverseengineering</code></li>
<li>If not, only <code>#reverseengineering</code> be used</li>
</ul>
| |discussion|feature-request|site-promotion| | What can be done to make the Twitter account more effective? | 243 | <p>Currently, the hashtags added by the <a href="https://twitter.com/StackReverseEng" rel="nofollow">Twitter bot</a> is just the most popular tag from the question. In many cases, the tag may be obscure, <a href="https://twitter.com/StackReverseEng/status/357848578154184704" rel="nofollow">too broad</a> (#python) or <a... |
2013-08-13T00:51:44.660 | <p>I would agree that career advice is probably a bit too noisy and specific to be of much use to anyone but the person asking the question.</p>
| |discussion|scope| | Do we want to give out career-advice? | 247 | <p>We have a tag <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/career-advice" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'career-advice'" rel="tag">career-advice</a> with one popular question. Career advice is generally considered a can of worms and is off-topic across the entire Net... |
2013-08-17T02:57:42.433 | <h2>What is spam?</h2>
<p>Spam is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29" rel="nofollow noreferrer">unsolicited commercial advertisement</a>. Fundamentally, spam tries to sell you something when you didn't ask for anything.</p>
<p>Some spam is after your money. Sometimes it's indirect, such as sp... | |support|faq| | What should I do on seeing spam? | 250 | <ul>
<li>What is spam?</li>
<li>I saw a spam post, what should I do? <strong>(Important)</strong></li>
<li>I saw a spam edit, what should I do?</li>
<li>How can I help fight spam most effectively?</li>
</ul>
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2013-08-30T03:01:00.390 | <h1>Final Results</h1>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2394/how-can-i-change-the-read-write-execute-flags-on-a-segment-in-ida">How can I change the Read/Write/Execute flags on a segment in IDA?</a></p>
<p><strong>Net Score: 11</strong> (Excellent: 11, Satisfactory: 2, Needs I... | |discussion|site-evaluation| | Let's get critical: Aug 2013 Site Self-Evaluation | 252 | <p>We all love <a href="http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com">Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange</a>, 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 Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look ... |
2013-09-06T09:46:33.127 | <p>I <a href="https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10926/70968">posted an answer on A51</a> regarding a similar issue with the TOR proposal. That answer largely covers the same ground. </p>
<p>Basically, unless a question itself is mentioning or linking to something that can be construed to be illegal or immoral, t... | |discussion| | Detecting malicious behaviour | 255 | <p>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. </p>
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2013-11-28T03:01:12.163 | <h1>Final Results</h1>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2964/which-calling-convention-to-use-for-eax-edx-in-ida">Which calling convention to use for EAX/EDX in IDA</a></p>
<p><strong>Net Score: 5</strong> (Excellent: 5, Satisfactory: 2, Needs Improvement: 0)</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h... | |discussion|site-evaluation| | Let's get critical: Nov 2013 Site Self-Evaluation | 267 | <p>We all love <a href="http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com">Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange</a>, 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 Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look ... |
2013-12-09T13:38:40.567 | <p>Binaries have protection. Source code has protection, but not as much as the binary. Disassemblies are smart guesses. You can't take a disassembly from IDA or objdump and recover a working program. You equally can't recover the source. RE has more than enough plausible deniability. </p>
| |discussion| | What to do with questions of type "Decompile this assembler code"? | 270 | <p>Just now, I have edited a question of type "<a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3153/decompiling-this-i386-assembler-program-in-c"><em>Decompile this assembler code</em></a>".</p>
<p>It is not the first one and it will not be the last one...</p>
<p>I know that, whatever we do, we will e... |
2013-12-20T18:18:55.283 | <p>See <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/help/asking">https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/help/asking</a></p>
| |discussion| | Question Limitations | 275 | <p>What are the rules and question Limitations in Reverse Engineering?</p>
<p>Some Questions seems to ask for help in cracking. Is that legitimate? Are we allowed to answer him even if he specifies the program which is working on?</p>
<p>Hope you got the point</p>
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2014-02-26T03:01:17.123 | <h1>Final Results</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3435/why-ida-pro-generated-a-j-printf-function-call">Why IDA Pro generated a "j_printf" function call?</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Net Score: 5</strong> (Excellent: 5, Satisfactory: 2, Needs Improvement: 0)</p>
<hr /... | |discussion|site-evaluation| | Let's get critical: Feb 2014 Site Self-Evaluation | 279 | <p>We all love <a href="http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com">Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange</a>, 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 Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look ... |
2014-06-04T05:25:05.663 | <p>Makes sense in my opinion. We have x86, ARM.. I approved one of your edits.</p>
| |discussion|tags| | Tag wiki for MIPS assembly / disassembly, etc | 290 | <p>I would like to have added <code>[mips]</code>as a new tag:</p>
<ul>
<li>as quite a number of questions show up when you search for <code>mips</code> - 41 currently, although I think some might not fit under the spirit of such a tag</li>
<li>there is a tag for <code>[x86]</code>, which has 47 questions tagged curre... |
2014-08-25T03:01:24.577 | <h1>Final Results</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5890/why-did-the-program-entry-point-become-sub-esp-1c">Why did the program entry point become 'sub esp, 1C'?</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Net Score: 9</strong> (Excellent: 9, Satisfactory: 6, Needs Improvement: 0)</p>
... | |discussion|site-evaluation| | Let's get critical: Aug 2014 Site Self-Evaluation | 295 | <p>We all love <a href="http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com">Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange</a>, 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 Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look ... |
2014-11-14T13:08:00.430 | <p>I think posting ciphertext is totally fine. If we want to develop techniques to decode/decrypt/deobfuscate, we will need diverse examples.</p>
<p>You have some unknown binary data and you don't know what it is?</p>
<p>If this isn't the forum for it, what is?</p>
<p>I find it more than a little humorous that xoring 4... | |discussion|questions|migration| | Decryption of ciphertext | 297 | <p>On both <a href="http://stackoverflow.com">StackOverflow</a> and at the healthy beta <a href="http://crypto.stackexchange.com">Cryptography</a> we get a lot of questions about decryption of a certain ciphertext. Sometimes they are just base 64 blocks, but often there is a bit more to it than that. On neither site th... |
2015-01-08T07:33:35.757 | <p>If there is no option for users with closing privileges to migrate a question to specific site, the way to get a question migrated to some site is to flag this question for moderator attention with "Other" flag ("This question belongs to {site}, because...") - you are right about your second option. Moderators will ... | |support| | Closing and suggesting other sites within SE network (not SO) | 299 | <p>At times I close vote a question because it belongs on another site within the SE network. Most of the time it belongs on SO and there's a default entry in the menu under <code>offtopic</code> -> <code>question on SW dev belong at SO</code>. </p>
<p>However sometimes it belongs on the <code>crypto</code> or <code>u... |
2015-02-22T03:02:35.487 | <p>I think that newcomers are treated too harshly. If you disagree with something, by all means down-vote it, but do you really need to down-vote if it is already -9? I would vote to stop the display (though not internal count) at -1.</p>
<p>Anyway, people like to nit-pick and be pedantic, which is both appropriate an... | |discussion|site-evaluation| | Let's get critical: Feb 2015 Site Self-Evaluation | 301 | <p>We all love <a href="http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com">Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange</a>, 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 Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look ... |
2016-01-26T22:58:31.850 | <p>Since you seem to be trying to reverse-engineer a data structure, this looks on-topic too me.</p>
| |discussion| | Letting you check my analysis of a data dump against the source code - on topic? | 310 | <p>I'd like to explain my dissection of a data dump hold against the code to get another opinion or to check my analysis. Is this on topic or off topic?</p>
<p>I'd show the data dump with markings which bytes or bits describe what in a datastructure while the frame is parsed by the code.</p>
<p>E.g. it might look lik... |
2016-03-31T20:01:35.867 | <p>The question was answered by the same user and it's <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/">perfectly fine</a> since our goal is to share knowledge and make the internet better, so further users can benefit from it.</p>
<p>See: Help Center > Answering on <a href=... | |discussion|reputation| | Possible reputation abuse | 314 | <p>I was looking for an answer that involved <code>CallWindowProc</code> and I stumbled upon this <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/4125/what-does-this-call-to-callwindowproc-do">question</a></p>
<p>Looks like this user has posted the question already knowing the answer, answered it right... |
2016-04-12T17:33:53.270 | <p>It depends on who you happen to encounter to be honest. I would say Yes, but some people are so pedantic that almost nothing seems on-topic. I mean, what kind of community do we have when a person has to ask if their question is on-topic before asking it?</p>
| |discussion|scope| | Are sniffing/debugging questions on-topic? | 316 | <p>Are questions related to sniffing traffic (tcpdump) or debugging command-line tools are on-topic?</p>
<p>For example tracing php, memcached processes using dtrace or strace?</p>
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2016-08-17T05:59:43.973 | <p>The hardware RE is most definitely on-topic, as you can check by looking at the <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hardware">hardware tag</a>.</p>
<p>Negative votes do not necessarily mean "offtopic". The close votes so far were for "too broad"; not sure I agree with the reason b... | |discussion| | reverse engineering of electronics of games - off topic? | 318 | <p>Why is asking about the concepts of a game hardware design is considers to be off topic?</p>
<p>I'm trying to find out the concept of hardware design of a game, which is reverse engineering of the game, I think.</p>
<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/283464/where-to-ask-about-reverse-engineering-... |
2016-09-30T21:57:26.190 | <p>The current name is quite confusing, and I would suggest replacing it with something a bit more clear, such as <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tool-bindiff" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'tool-bindiff'" rel="tag">tool-bindiff</a> instead.</p>
<p>Althoug... | |discussion|tags| | bindiff verses bin-diffing tags | 322 | <p>The <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bindiff">bindiff</a> tag has the following description:</p>
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<p>Commercial binary diffing tool sold by Google (formerly zynamics/Sabre)</p>
</blockquote>
<p>and until recently 9 questions. Out of those, only 4 (<a href="https:... |
2016-11-17T21:15:53.757 | <p><a href="/questions/tagged/status-completed" class="post-tag moderator-tag" title="show questions tagged 'status-completed'" rel="tag">status-completed</a></p>
<p>Igor Skochinsky created the <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ipod" class="post-tag" title="show questions t... | |discussion|status-completed|tags| | Need a tag for Legacy iPod (pre-iOS/touch) questions | 326 | <p>I have just asked a question about legacy iPod click wheel games here:</p>
<p><a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/q/13965/17972">Reverse Engineering Legacy iPod Click Wheel Games</a></p>
<p>I do not have the required reputation to create an <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/qu... |
2017-02-03T08:10:43.630 | <p>Well, actually even your question <a href="https://reverseengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/149/245">was asked before</a> (the way I read it, anyway). The tag <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/specific-question" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'specific-quest... | |discussion|questions|specific-question| | Too 'narrow' questions | 338 | <p>There has been discussion about <em>too broad</em> questions here, but we lack the analogon for <em>too narrow</em> questions. Motivation for this question are the comments under <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/14556/can-radare2-support-word-based-architectures"><em>Can Radare2 suppor... |
2017-02-06T10:43:06.213 | <p>Yes, in theory we could add more fine-grained tags but I don't think there are so many questions on the site yet that such distinction is necessary.</p>
| |discussion|tags| | About symbols tag | 339 | <p>Should we use <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbols" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'symbols'" rel="tag">symbols</a> for all questions related with any symbol information?</p>
<p>I think it is too broad for all symbol related operations. It can be used... |
2017-02-13T15:24:15.267 | <p>Alas, this is not possible, sorry. There is no link between your edit (which was accepted before you joined) and your current account. </p>
<p>But I'm sure you'll find other ways to improve the site now that you're a member :)</p>
| |discussion| | Change the edit attribution | 341 | <p>Today I found out this SE site and browsed a little. A <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/q/14635/19142">question</a> caught my interest and while reading the answer, I edited it to improve readability. The edit then went to the approval queue and after that I actually joined the site.</p>
<p>Now... |
2017-03-07T00:38:06.673 | <p>Following up in Igors explanation there seem to be two solutions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Get SE to change its offtopic-policy (not likely)</li>
<li>Make the site more popular, so people may rather ask these questions here</li>
</ol>
<p>Maybe a feature proposal is the best way:</p>
<p>SE already checks is there were similar... | |discussion| | Directing users who post RE questions elsewhere on SE to this site and/or migrating questions | 344 | <p>Currently there are a total of 3,749 questions on this site. On SO there are 2,166 questions tagged "reverse-engineering" and on Security.SE there are 122 questions tagged "reverse-engineering". Not all are focused specifically on RE but quite a few are. Here are some examples:</p>
<p>From SO:</p>
<p><a href="http... |
2017-03-14T02:18:28.950 | <p>I don't have a specific suggestion just yet, but I think that improving the first custom close reason or adding another, more specific one, could alleviate the issue of the questions lacking info (not just crypto ones). For the history of it see <a href="https://reverseengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/a/271/60">th... | |discussion| | Should questions to the effect of "How do I decrypt this file/data?" be considered on-topic? | 347 | <p>Edit: just found this question from 2014: <a href="https://reverseengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/297/decryption-of-ciphertext">Decryption of ciphertext</a>. This is essentially an updated version of that question with more data and a request for clarification since there is nothing in the help center s... |
2017-07-05T14:47:23.400 | <p>You are right, that definition is incorrect because the second sentence contradicts the first. Who knows how the author got it wrong. Maybe he was distracted or thinking of something else. Maybe it was a copy and paste accident, but definitely it can be most simply corrected by deleting the second sentence.</p>
| |discussion| | Question about definition for tag "dynamic-linking" | 354 | <p><strong>Question</strong>: is the definition correct? If not, what should the correct definition be?</p>
<p>Here is the definition:</p>
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<p>Dynamic linking is the process of resolving at runtime a program's external function calls or dependencies. It is usually performed at compile time by the linker... |
2018-02-01T18:46:08.740 | <p>Beginners, enthusiasts and hobbyists are all welcomed in our community. Frankly, some of the most active users in our community enjoy reverse engineering as their hobby and this is not their profession. "Researchers" is a term that have more than one definition. As I sees it, people that are trying to reverse engine... | |discussion|scope| | Are questions from hobbyists, makers and enthusiasts on-topic? | 357 | <p>This question was prompted by a comment to a question in another discussion on EE.SE <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6480/29434">here</a>.</p>
<p>From the tour page of this site I read (emphasis mine): </p>
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<p>Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange is a question and answer site <st... |
2018-05-04T12:28:55.930 | <p>Area 51 still looks broken however the <a href="https://stackexchange.com/sites#traffic">network overview page</a> seems to be working again (currently showing 4.5k/day).</p>
| |support|bug| | Problem with visitors/day computation? | 361 | <p>I noticed since a few weeks that the rate of visitors/day has dropped down in an irrealistic manner. It went from about 5000 visitors/day to 5.</p>
<p>Did something change in the way it is counted or is it just a bug ? </p>
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2018-08-23T19:31:32.097 | <p>Right now the <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reverse-engineering" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'reverse-engineering'" rel="tag">reverse-engineering</a> tag has <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/tags/reverse-engineering/info">a dozen... | |discussion|tags| | Should we keep the "reverse-engineering" tag? | 369 | <p>Right now we have a <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reverse-engineering" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'reverse-engineering'" rel="tag">reverse-engineering</a> tag. I would like to raise the question of whether we should keep it or not, and suggest we re... |
2018-09-28T00:49:40.677 | <p>Given the listing you gave it's clear that, while <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/idapro-plugins" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'idapro-plugins'" rel="tag">idapro-plugins</a> is a subset of <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/... | |discussion|tags| | What's the purpose of the "plugin" tag? | 373 | <p>The <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plugin" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'plugin'" rel="tag">plugin</a> tag is a little odd, and without usage or wiki content its purpose is unclear at least to me, and I suspect to other users as well.</p>
<p>Here is s... |
2018-10-04T01:30:54.697 | <p>I'll stick with the recommendation given elsewhere and succinctly paraphrased there as (bracketed addition by me):</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>It is not our job [as moderators] to enforce third party agreements.</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Anything else opens a can of worms. IANAL. So I am very happy to be giv... | |discussion| | How should we handle posts in which reverse engineering is prohibited by a EULA? | 378 | <p>When I went to the vendor's firmware download page linked to in <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/19517/need-help-identifying-main-processor-for-roland-synthesizer?atw=1">Need help identifying main processor for Roland synthesizer</a> I saw this in the EULA:</p>
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<ol star... |
2021-12-03T10:20:15.550 | <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/16/congratulations-are-in-order-these-sites-are-leaving-beta/">It's official</a>!</p>
| |discussion|events|community| | Upcoming site graduation: leaving beta on 2021-12-16 | 413 | <p>since <a href="https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/49551/reverse-engineering">the proposal in 2013</a>, our site has steadily garnered interest and and influx of new community members. Igor also pointed out, that we probably owe the whole idea taking shape to Rolf pitching it <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r... |
2022-12-28T11:51:27.353 | <p>Ghidra questions are on-topic. This includes questions about the tool itself. There is nothing wrong with also opening an issue at their GitHub repo, and if an answer is provided there please share it here as well.</p>
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<p>Am I correct in thinking that this person is being rude</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Yes, ... | |support| | Are questions relating specifically to Ghidra on-topic? | 427 | <p>As a newcomer to RE I recently asked a question about something that I was not understanding. I mentioned that I was using Ghidra and didn't understand why something wasn't working the way that I expected it to, although the answer to my question may or may not be more about understanding in general rather than a sp... |
2023-01-30T16:21:40.467 | <p>I enabled the following default languages for tags. This is mostly thought as a reference for now:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/c%2b%2b" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'c++'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'c++'" rel="tag" aria-... | |discussion|feature-request|status-completed|syntax-highlighting| | How about finally enabling syntax highlighting for RE.SE? | 432 | <p>I would like to once again put forward this <a href="https://reverseengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/125">old proposal</a>. Let's activate syntax highlighting for RE.SE.</p>
<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/314554">Currently it is not enabled.</a></p>
<ul>
<li>There are plenty of examples of Python c... |
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