[ale] code hacker recomendations

[Michael B. Trausch]

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Mark Wright wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a disk from a specialized computer that controls other hardware.
>  It is a nix based OS I believe.  We have no way to get any info from
> the manufacturer about the code or help in improving it.  My boss has
> asked me to look at reverse engineering it so we could write a replacement.
> 
> Our company is very litigation conscious and savvy so I don't think he
> would ask me to look into this if it was beyond our rights.
> 
> Does anyone have any recommendations for any books I can read to educate
> myself on this realm of hackerdom?
> 

If you're looking at writing a replacement for an existing system, what
I would do is start taking notes about what functionality you need to
keep identical and work from there.  Not so much reverse-engineer it as
make sure you can recreate / extend it.  Do ensure also that if you're
doing this, that the project stays 100% internal and never sees the
light of day outside of the company, as distribution of something could
potentially lead to very ugly IP battles.

What type of functionality do you need?  What type of system is this on?
 Do you have the source code to the programs in particular that need to
be executed on it?  These are all questions that you need answers to, to
begin determining what you're going to do with it.

	Later,
	Mike

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