Tag: assembly

Bootloader Development Environment

So I took on a new challenge, understanding how to develop your own Master Boot Record (MBR). So how do you start to develop your own bootloader? The first answer that came into mind was the setup of a development environment. No development environment , no bootloader. Actually that’s my thought on every new coding project I undertake. In this blog post I’m going to explain the steps I went through and why I finally choose for a somewhat rather basic development environment. Anyways let’s get started.

p.s. Happy New Year

p.s.2. HACK THE PLANET!!!

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Reversing, grasping the big picture

So no reversing section but still a reversing post. My personal opinion is that reversing is part of a forensic research in some way or an other…you could state that reversing is like a very specific forensic investigator. Most people asociate reversing with copyright infringements and bypassing security measures to access forbidden goodies(game cheats for example). Reversing can also be used for legal purposes just to name a few:

  • perform a blackbox audit on an executable
  • perform a investigation on a piece of malware
  • help develop a quick patch until the official one is released
  • learn and understand compiler optimization

I love reversing, I also hate reversing. Yet I keep practicing it and trying to learn. Why ? Because it really is a beautifull way to learn new things and to relax(this depends on the person reversing of course).

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