EvilZone

Are these books for all types of reverse engineering or geared towards either software or hardware?

Need is subjective, but I see your point.

Gave it a quick read, I'll get back to you in a few days after I've mastered the material enough to ask useful questions and produce serious discussion that doesn't consist of pseudo-intellectual jargon.

1. Hacking is simply using something in a way that it was not originally intended for. Today the term is bastardized however and is often used to describe the act of breaking into computer systems.

That's one hell of an accurate definition of hacking, you learn simple life hacks and normal people act one of two ways fear or awe. To acquire this effect or ability to affect others you need to learn how to do something a bit more abstract then writing cursive    especially when it comes to the digital world, it's easy to learn if you grew up in the era of the internet though    benefits of modern technology; even smart kids in 3rd world countries can become notorious hackers if they put the effort in.


Another response I liked but didn't quote was read, I don't know if a lot of people realize this but by reading different perspectives not only do you exercise your brain but you expand your consciousness. The more a given perception contrasts with your own the more information you acquire, learning to critically analyze that information is what's important, and hacking is about using your analysis to do things that most wouldn't consider possible.

Here's a link, check this out; but don't expect handouts if you're serious about learning you need to do the majority of the legwork on your own, this isn't public school 


http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

So you want to learn how to modify Rome without first knowing how to bake clay?

You attended Advanced Computers class thinking you were gonna absorb the knowledge quicker and cheat having to learn from the ground up?

You phony.

Why dont you come back when you have learned how to use Google.

In the mean time, all the answers you need are are here:

http://bit.ly/1o6bCLG

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

I would prefer that you didn't call me names, apart from that, your link is useless to my purpose.


If you don't understand my question I would ask that you refrain from trash talking or even posting at all. I despise the pretentious but will not lower myself to labeling them as such simply because they feel like trying to trade punches with my ego.


Good day to you sir.

Lol maybe start from small reverse-me's and see how that works before trying to "modify the OS".

What is a reverse-me?

How exactly you modify an OS depends on what you want to change.. OS's these days are large, complex and with A LOT of modules and components. One way of modification would be to replace the OS's native applications like notepad, mspaint, task manager and so on. Most modern OS's also come with the ability to customize colors, fonts, size and much more without having to modify anything else than configuration files, registery values or other forms of configuration data. If you want to modify the OS kernel/core on the other hand, this will require a great deal of skill and experience depending on what you want to accomplish. And like proxx said, Microsoft Windows is precompiled and installed as binary files and has a closed source code. The only way to modify the windows kernel is by reversing it and modifying it that way. Unix/Linux on the other hand can be modified as much as you want in the source code and compiled.

Anything open source, like Linux, are most of the time licensed under so called open source licenses and will most of the time not get you in any trouble when modifying things. However, I am sure Microsoft dosent want you to poke around in their stuff. But then again, who gives a shit.

'Fully renovate an OS' is an ambiguous term. Again, what do you want to modify and why?

As for languages needed or presented in OS's: Assembly, C, C++, .NET (Windows) and its probably a good idea to know bash, batch (windows) and powershell.


Final words: Dont reinvent the wheel. And start small.

Are there any additional tutorials or programs either of you would suggest I pursue to help my progress in this particular pursuit?

Sounds like you have no clue what it is you are asking.
OS's like windowz come in binary form which would require you to decompile/reverse engineer which is a study by itself.

Linux/BSD where you have the source code of (I think tried to point to) the kernel is open and you can download a copy of it online.

Mostly C/C#/C++

Yeah, sounds about right. I don't want to mess with linux until I know my way around windows first. I'm getting better at navigating through the interface, but considering I'm not yet proficient at command line I'm trying to cover all the bases in the areas that I notice first.


Time wise though, if someone of considerable skill where to attempt to modify an OS like windows for example how long would that take to modify, and then check for errors. I'm curious as to whether I it's a good idea to begin sooner or later. Considering my skillset sooner would be at the earliest jan 2015, later being June 2016 or Sep 2016.