I had my fair share of reversing more than 10y ago. Such a fun times, learned a lot!
> Ideally, readers will have acquired an interactive disassembler such as Binary Ninja, IDA Pro, or Ghidra
I'm guessing OllyDbg is no more an option
> Ideally, readers will have acquired an interactive disassembler such as Binary Ninja, IDA Pro, or Ghidra
I'm guessing OllyDbg is no more an option
OllyDbg seems to have been replaces by x64dbg for most people I know
I learned the term from this old blog post by Nate Lawson: https://rdist.root.org/2008/07/03/dead-listing-while-on-vaca...
“What do I do on long plane rides or while listening to the waves lap against the beach? Dead-listing.
Dead-listing is analyzing the raw disassembly of some target software and figuring it out using only pen and paper. This is great for vacations because your laptop won’t get sand in it. You usually have a long period of time to muse about the code in question without interruptions, something hard to find at home these days. And I’ve gotten some of my best ideas after setting aside my papers for a while and going for a long swim.”
I felt like such a hardcore hacker removing the nag screen from some bit of shareware!
[edit: uh oh, might have fallen down the Fravia rabbit hole again. Here's a mention of dead-listing from '97! https://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/mirror/fravia.org/siuL.htm]
[edit 2 - ha ha, the original link you posted the term "dead listing" hyperlinked... to Fravia!]
Oh i miss them!
It was a royal pain to lock windows up! It was clunky and you had to get a feel for if you were still in your program or you were dragged into the OS for things like Windows actual mouse code/logic.
I almost can’t imagine how I did it using another PC for my notes and scratchings. Having to manually type out so many addresses and the code I was inspecting.
Still, for some reason I loved SoftIce. I remember it just working.