I've found that Claude Code works well at reversing java applications. Even if it is fully obfuscated claude can restore sensible names for everything and understand how it all works and answer questions about what it is doing.
fendy3002•1h ago
huh, iirc this already exists long before LLM
charcircuit•56m ago
It required a lot of manual work and for large apps like Minecraft it took teams of people to figure out what the symbol names should be slowly contributing a little bit every day.
colechristensen•46m ago
Claude is quite skilled at using Ghidra, for example.
egeozcan•43m ago
Interesting, I'd have assumed the guardrails would disallow them from doing anything like that, regardless of legality. Do you need to "convince" it to do it or no questions asked?
charcircuit•24m ago
It is no questions asked. Even if you are reversing things like anticheats (I wanted to know the privacy implications of running the anticheat).
JimDabell•25m ago
The same is true for iPhone apps (.ipa files). You can just unzip them.
HelloUsername•4m ago
For many things. Change .epub to .zip for example, you get html text and jpg images
charcircuit•1h ago
fendy3002•1h ago
charcircuit•56m ago
colechristensen•46m ago
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charcircuit•24m ago