Editing Binaries

open source software “lets you scratch your own itch.”

When Hiro learned how to do this, way back fifteen years ago, a hacker could sit down and write an entire piece of software by himself. Now, that’s no longer possible. Software comes out of factories, and hackers are, to a greater or lesser extent, assembly-line workers. Worse yet, they may become managers who never get to write any code themselves

The work of encoding values into software systems can now be more trivially automated.

A process rarely contains the metacode to determine when to ignore the process.

A process can be a block of code executing in-memory, and therefore a vulnerability in a process is also a software vulnerability.