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  • The difference there is that our project manager guy is afraid they’re gonna go to prison if they don’t let you add those supports and something goes wrong. But for the software dude, building things properly is unfortunately mostly a concern for you and the other software engineers, and mr project manager doesn’t have that much of an incentive to let you do that



  • It’s literally the process of turning the executable back into actual code (albeit usually much less readable than the original code, since symbols are usually stripped from release builds, so the original variables and functions names are lost), so it can do much more than that.

    Once you’ve fully decompiled something and understand the resulting code, or even some parts of it, you can basically edit the original source code.