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		thamer on Aug 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open AirPlay 2 Receiver Decompilation is very much part of reverse engineering. The two are not the same, but disassembling and decompiling code are extremely common techniques used to reverse engineer a program, algorithm, or protocol.

bigiain on Aug 9, 2022 [–]

That's clearly "hacker true". I wonder if it's "lawyer true" as well? It could very well not be.

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