Have you ever had a look at source code or disassembly? The first is like reading a book where somebody gives the computer instructions. It’s kinda readable (if you learned it) and you can figure out with ‘little’ effort what it’s supposed to do and actually doing.
Disassembly is like opening the maintenance door of a strange machine and you just see millions of moving cogs and wheels. Sure you can figure out what a single cog is for, or how a part of the machine works. But you’d have to trace thousands of movements by hand, sometimes while running. And it takes you days, sometimes weeks to do that. Even with help of quite sophisticated tools.
Have you ever had a look at source code or disassembly? The first is like reading a book where somebody gives the computer instructions. It’s kinda readable (if you learned it) and you can figure out with ‘little’ effort what it’s supposed to do and actually doing. Disassembly is like opening the maintenance door of a strange machine and you just see millions of moving cogs and wheels. Sure you can figure out what a single cog is for, or how a part of the machine works. But you’d have to trace thousands of movements by hand, sometimes while running. And it takes you days, sometimes weeks to do that. Even with help of quite sophisticated tools.