Advertising
Question about computer security regarding RAM...
Question about computer security regarding RAM...
That was probably a bad title but it's a very general question and that was the best I could think... My question is: Theoretically, can anything be retrieved from RAM? If yes, doesn't this mean that anything that can be executed is vulnerable to reverse-engineering (or if it is artwork, steeling)?
Re: Question about computer security regarding RAM...
Without theoretically.Nickolas wrote:Theoretically, can anything be retrieved from RAM?
Yes. That doesn't mean RE it will be easy (check polymorphic code for example). And please don't confuse RE with stealing.Nickolas wrote: If yes, doesn't this mean that anything that can be executed is vulnerable to reverse-engineering (or if it is artwork, steeling)?
Advertising
I wanna lots of mov al,0xb
"just not into this RA stuffz"
"just not into this RA stuffz"
Re: Question about computer security regarding RAM...
I didn't mean to offend reverse engineers, it's definitely not stealing. Thanks for answering Does this work for any RAM in any device? Were I to reverse engineer an iPhone app for example would I be able to dump the memory and find the app's address?
-
- Retired Mod
- Posts: 2744
- Joined: Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:27 pm
- Location: Over the hills and far away
Re: Question about computer security regarding RAM...
I have a question about RE in general: is it legal to RE a program that has no license specified, make the resulting source code public, and base a different program on it?
Re: Question about computer security regarding RAM...
For any Von Neumann's architecture-based device (which are 99.999999%), yes.Nickolas wrote:Does this work for any RAM in any device?
The point is being able to dump the memory region you want. The own application addresses are easily known. The problem is accessing memory regions your program has no right to.Nickolas wrote:Were I to reverse engineer an iPhone app for example would I be able to dump the memory and find the app's address?
If it has no license specified (which is rare) then yes.Xian Nox wrote:is it legal to RE a program that has no license specified, make the resulting source code public, and base a different program on it?
I wanna lots of mov al,0xb
"just not into this RA stuffz"
"just not into this RA stuffz"