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Security · 7h ago

Reverse engineering enters the cheap era

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Hacker News ·

Advances in AI and tooling are dramatically lowering the cost and skill barrier for reverse engineering software and hardware. A new post on Simon Willison's blog highlights how techniques once reserved for experts are now accessible to hobbyists and small teams. This shift could accelerate security research but also make it easier for malicious actors to analyze proprietary systems.

Meridian48 take
The democratization of reverse engineering is a double-edged sword: it empowers security researchers but also lowers the bar for intellectual property theft and vulnerability discovery by attackers.
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