Reversing is an art more than a science, and the most important things to learn are not tools of the trade but habits of thought and approaches to problem solving.<p>I appreciate what this guy is doing by documenting his learning process, it will help him without doubt, but... as an audience - perhaps we should not learn a difficult skill from someone who started their own journey into this subject a few days ago?
It doesn't recommend radare2[1] and Cutter[2], which are free and opensource.<p>[1] <a href="http://rada.re" rel="nofollow">http://rada.re</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/radareorg/cutter" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/radareorg/cutter</a>
HN comments from an earlier posting. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14537506" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14537506</a>
Curious, are there specific security engineer professionals that do this type of work day to day? Doesn't seem like a regular security analyst type role. Seems very specialized. What is the field like, compensation and is this generally for consultants?