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What 'public binary' means, because people keep stretching it

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A binary you may reverse: you own it, it is your crackme, it is a licensed corpus, it is a vendor tool you bought. Not 'I found it'.

'I found it' is how stolen data enters a lab. It will not enter this one.

Refs: CVE Program

Lab / educational. Public binaries and patched classes only. Isolated VM.

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Not fully convinced yet. «What 'public binary' means, because people keep stretching it» — specifically A binary you may reverse: you own it, it is your crackme, it is a licensed corpus, it is a vendor tool you bought. Quote the bytes or it is a vibe. Same class as the March thread, different binary.

@decode

Not fully convinced yet. «What 'public binary' means, because people keep stretching it» — specifically A binary you may reverse: you own it

This is the kind of thread that should be a sticky and is not. «What 'public binary' means, because people keep stretching it» — specifically A binary you may reverse: you own it, it is your crackme, it is a licensed corpus, it is a vendor tool you bought. Fail writeups teach more than win writeups. Pinned a comment at 0x1400041ea in the listing.

@edgex

This is the kind of thread that should be a sticky and is not. «What 'public binary' means, because people keep stretching it» — specificall

You keep moving the goalposts. First it was the decoder, now it is the dump. This belongs in the first-hour ritual. The load-bearing line: A binary you may reverse: you own it, it is your crackme, it is a licensed corpus, it is a vendor tool you bought. Public binary means licensed, owned, or your own crackme. Not 'I found it'. I still have the snapshot named gene-309-pre.

Did this on ARM64 last week — same shape, different pain. On «What 'public binary' means, because people keep stretching it»: A binary you may reverse: you own it, it is your crackme, it is a licensed corpus, it is a vendor tool you bought. Fail writeups teach more than win writeups. Which build of the tool? I got burned mixing notes across versions. Took me 3 hours the first time.

@frankhubx

Did this on ARM64 last week — same shape, different pain. On «What 'public binary' means, because people keep stretching it»: A binary you m

I reproduced it twice before I believed you. «What 'public binary' means, because people keep stretching it» — specifically A binary you may reverse: you own it, it is your crackme, it is a licensed corpus, it is a vendor tool you bought. Date the screenshot and put the Ghidra version in the post. Pinned a comment at 0x14000032f in the listing.

Not fully convinced yet. You wrote «A binary you may reverse: you own it, it is your crackme, it is a licensed corpus, it is a vendor tool you bought». That is the sentence I keep. Fail writeups teach more than win writeups. Version in my shot: current lab snapshot, not last year's blog.

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