Reverse-Engineering Driven Development

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Reverse engineering reveals concrete answers: disassemble macOS/iOS frameworks with Hopper disassembly + control-flow graph, attach with LLDB/Xcode debugging or extract caches with dsc extractor, and inspect registers and conventions. A real bug hinges on a 0.25 second event window (0.25 seconds event window) where a mouse-up within 250 ms routes to target/action instead of the framework popup; the implemented fix manually shows the popup and resolves the failure. Use a VM for unsafe work and consider debugserver on jailbroken devices.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:35Who am I
3. 1:21Who is this talk for
4. 2:06Why reverse engineering
5. 5:03Assembly language
6. 6:45Assembly format
7. 8:20Assembly code
8. 9:52Registers
9. 12:46Debugging
10. 14:44iOS Debugging
11. 17:36Disassembling
12. 18:18Hopper
13. 21:21Example
14. 28:23Limitations
15. 30:50Further Information

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