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Dear Microsoft: What's the deal with Windows 7 upgrades?

Location?38.921473?N 77.066946?WYep, same here ...... stonewalled at every turn. With you ...... I can see, because you've been pulling on Microsoft's scab lately. But in Ed's case, I don't know why they would treat him like that.^o^Message has been deleted..Believe it or not ...... it makes little difference. The...

Tags: upgrade media, reverse engineering, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Tiller Beauchamp on the Recon 2008 conference

Guest Editorial by Tiller Beauchamp Earlier this month I had the opportunity to present RE:Trace at the Recon conference, a reverse engineering conference held every other year in Montreal, Canada.  The conference consisted of three days of training and three days of talks in a single track.  Topics...

Tags: Reverse Engineering, Kernel, Conference, Novell NetWare, LDAP, Operating Systems, Servers, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Integrated health management

Integrated health managementLike, DUH![i]What would you do with these predictions once you had them?[/i]Find a way to lose those suckers. Maybe get them fired or something.RE: Integrated health managementNo wonder this idea isn't going to take off, its got Larry Page on the board and they aren't asking the...

Tags: Integrated Health Management, reverse engineering

Discussion threads 2008-04-10

SWF Protect 1.6 (Windows)

SWF Protect uses Advanced Obfuscation Techniques along side proven Encryption Technology to provide security and protection for your Adobe Flash SWF Files. Put simply, SWF Encrypt prevents other people from decompiling or reverse engineering your SWF movie and stealing the ActionScript Code. This version is the first release on CNET...

Tags: Reverse Engineering, Encryption Technology, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-01-04

Applying Pantomime and Reverse Engineering Techniques in Software Engineering Education

During the past six years, the authors have experimented with various modeling and quality control techniques while teaching software engineering to university students. The first group of experiments compared UML to natural languages (e.g. English); the second group modeled the entire software development process as a sequence of translations from...

Tags: Education, Software, Software Engineering, Reverse Engineering, UML, Programming Languages, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management

White papers 2007-10-13

Dynamic Modeling of Trajectory Patterns Using Data Mining and Reverse Engineering

The constant increase of moving object data imposes the need for modeling, processing, and mining trajectories, in order to find and understand the patterns behind these data. Existing works have mainly focused on the geometric properties of trajectories, while the semantics and the background geographic information has rarely been addressed....

Tags: Trajectory, Data Mining, Reverse Engineering, Modeling, Trajectory Pattern, Research & Development, Business Operations

White papers 2007-10-02

XML Externalization Built Into Compiler Front-Ends Using a Parser Generator

This paper describes XML externalization built into compiler front-ends and its application to quick reverse engineering tool development. A parser generator MoJay was developed to build XML externalization functionality into compiler front-ends. After replacing the original parser generator with MoJay, generating a parser using it, and modifying a few lines...

Tags: Compiler, Reverse Engineering, Tool, Parser Generator, XML, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development

White papers 2007-08-15

Infineon a big winner in iPhone teardown

Infineon a big winner in iPhone teardownA bunch of groveling rodentsThey can't innovate so they resort to stealing ideas, like rats rummaging through the trash.They don't even give credit where credit is due. The big winners aren't the chip makers, but Apple's innovative engineers who do all the hard...

Tags: Semiconductors, Apple iPhone, big winner, chip, Apple Inc., reverse engineering, Infineon Technologies AG, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2007-07-02

Discoverer: Automatic Protocol Reverse Engineering From Network Traces

Application-level protocol specifications are useful for many security applications, including intrusion prevention and detection that performs deep packet inspection and traffic normalization, and penetration testing that generates network inputs to an application to uncover potential vulnerabilities. However, current practice in deriving protocol specifications is mostly manual. This paper presents Discoverer,...

Tags: Network, Reverse Engineering, Message Format, Intrusion Prevention, Security

White papers 2007-05-15

DbWrench - Database Design Software 1.4 (Windows)

DbWrench is a multi-platform database design and round-trip engineering software. The key features of DbWrench include: Graphic Entity Relation Diagram ERD editor, syntax highlighting SQL Query editor, multiple database support, forward and reverse engineering databases. Version 1.4 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

Tags: Database Design, Microsoft Windows, Reverse Engineering, Nizana Systems, DbWrench, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2007-02-13

Reverse Engineering TCP/IP-Like Networks Using Delay-Sensitive Utility Functions

TCP/IP can be interpreted as a distributed primal-dual algorithm to maximize aggregate utility over source rates. It has recently been shown that an equilibrium of TCP/IP, if exists, maximizes the same delay-insensitive utility over both source rates and routes, provided pure congestion prices are used as link costs in the...

Tags: Network, Reverse Engineering, Utility Function, Tcp/Ip, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2006-12-27

Elite programmers compete in CTF at DEFCON

Elite programmers compete in CTF at DEFCONMmmm... A Security Man's DreamI wish I was even partially as good as those guys to compete on their level.Elite?While I understand the enthusiasm breaking in and destroying things, I question whether these people should be described as elite. Creation is always harder...

Tags: Team management, Development tools, Cyberthreats, CTF, DefCon, reverse engineering, programmer, team, security

Discussion threads 2006-08-08

Reverse Engineering of Design Patterns From Java Source Code

Recovering design patterns can enhance existing source code analysis tools by bringing program understanding to the design level. This paper presents a new, fully automated pattern detection approach. The new approach is based on the reclassification of the GoF patterns by their pattern intent. It is argued that the GoF...

Tags: Design Pattern, Java, Reverse Engineering, University Of California, PINOT

White papers 2006-06-13

Why DRM transparency is good for users and vendors alike

Why DRM transparency is good for users and vendors alikeI believe it forbids circumventionNavio and Real didn't circumvent DRM. They added a flavor of it through their reverse engineering efforts.dbOWN?The new ammendments to the DMCA makes it illegal to *THINK* ABOUT OWNING!Wonder how they are going to enforce that...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Peer to peer (P2P), Digital media, reverse engineering, file-sharing, digital-rights management, DMCA, interoperability, computer program

Discussion threads 2006-05-23

Reverse engineering the meaning of Google's 'Beta'

Reverse engineering the meaning of Google's 'Beta'Every company does it...Google is just more honest about it. Windows 1.0 and 2.0 were Microsoft betas that customers paid full price for. It was only with Windows 3.0 that the OS moved out of beta. Google has a lot more latitude because their...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Tablets, Notebooks, tablet PC, Google Inc., women, beta, reverse engineering

Discussion threads 2006-01-23

Reverse engineering the meaning of Google's 'Beta'

Now that Google News is out of beta after 1219 days (3.33 years, and I thought they would pull the trigger at 3.14... years as an homage to pi), we can try to discern the meaning of beta in this era of seemingly perpetual beta. Gary Price of Search Engine...

Tags: beta

Blog posts 2006-01-23

Hollywood: Norwegian hacker a burgler

Hollywood: Norwegian hacker a burglerIf they're going to take the "trade secret" routeThen they're in serious trouble. Reverse engineering is a completely legal way to divine trade secrets.The fact is that the "keys" that Hollywood is blathering about were at best hidden under a fake rock by the front...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, reverse engineering, trade secret, Amerikan, Linux

Discussion threads 2003-12-05

Prevention of IP Spoofing in TCP/IP Connection: Vulnerability Ability and Probable Solutions - A Reverse Engineering Approach

In network environment the computer facilities are interconnected by using the Transmission Control Protocol - Internet Protocol suite. The TCP specification consists of several vulnerabilities and an equal number of weaknesses in its implementation. These drawbacks may allow an intruder to break into the network, and enable him to take...

Tags: IP, TCP, Reverse Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College Of Engineering, TCP Specification, Tcp/Ip, Networking

White papers 2003-11-25

Textweb 1.2 (Windows)

Textweb is a hypertext notepad with a reporting and cross-referencing feature. It has a simple browser interface. It is intended to help record and think about complex networks of ideas, things, or people, and their interactions. It is particularly helpful for those who frequently must enter new conceptual territory, and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Reverse Engineering, Codelode, Textweb

Software downloads 2003-09-29

FinanceX 1.4 (Mac)

Quicken was too slow... so I decided to reverse engineering its functionality. As with previous versions, if you get garbage right-click and save the link. I'm still open for feature requests.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Quicken, Reverse Engineering, Orchid Technologies, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2003-08-04