Allowed reverse engineering methods
Roderick Colenbrander
thunderbird2k at gmail.com
Sun May 30 16:29:15 CDT 2010
>> But which methods are allowed? I assume that "obvious"
>> methods (reading header files, registry dumps, etc.) are
>> acceptable, but can I e.g. analyze .pdb symbol files
>> (availble in e.g. Microsoft's DirectX SDK)?
>>
>>
>
> You can do the above as long as they are readily available. The .pdb files
> are accessible to all, then you can use them. If you have to copy them from
> a running Windows installation, they are not.
>
.pdb files should not be used. For instance they show internal data
structures, internal functions and much more. Stay away from them.
Roderick
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