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"I decided it would be worth it to spend a couple of weeks reverse engineering CTF to understand the security properties."

Just, wow, that he gets to spend a couple of weeks on stuff like that.

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As someone who occasionally reverse engineers things for fun, the fact that he managed to completely RE the whole thing to such a high level of detail in only a couple weeks is mind boggling.

I think that was his initial idea, but he kept going when he found stuff. From later in the article: "This was a bigger job than I had anticipated, and after a few weeks [...]".

Well, it is his job

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