Viral Github Repo to Reverse Engineer Anything !!

Medium ^ | 10/12/26 | Mehul Gupta

[srmanuel]

A few days ago, I started a thread about proprietary software from Adobe had been reverse engineered using AI tools. Today I ran across this Github Repo that connects with AI agents from a variety of the leading AI companies and allows anyone using the tool to look at raw binaries, firmware and reverse engineer features without the source code.

The tool on Github is called REA or reverse engineer anything and supposedly is blowing up in popularity and now people are now taking the code and enhancing it making the power of products like this and AI Agents grow exponentially

Here is another link about the product.

https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/reverse-engineer-anything-mcp

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: ai; freelaz

[ClearCase_guy]

I think 2027 is going to be a very interesting year. AI will really start to have an effect on things.

[FreedomPoster]

I’ve seen people talking about using this to extract car ECU code so they can do things like re-use the code on a different ECU because the original ECU is no longer available, to keep a car on the road. It’s pretty amazing.

[eyeamok]

sounds like things will become rather interesting in the very near future...

[ptsal]

Where is the code to make legacy Apple software run on current editions?

[OldCountryBoy]

I had not even thought of ECU coding. The aftermarket automotive and machinery industry must already be using the available tools.

Legacy software/hardware issues… Smart people using these tools can accomplish a lot. Stupid people can make a lot of crap.

[OldCountryBoy]

“And that opens up an interesting possibility: instead of starting every implementation from scratch, developers may increasingly be able to study a system they are authorized to examine, understand its behavior, and build a compatible implementation of their own.”

So much legacy software has just been piled on over its development life. These tools could be used to build a cleaner foundation.

[FreedomPoster]

The guys I saw discussing it were old school Audi B5 S4 people. They were getting >1000 whp out of those things 20+ years ago. 2.7L V6.

The point being, they get ECU modding, some have serious software backgrounds, etc.

I assume a lot of legacy parts issues are being solved with 3D printing. This steps up the game for automotive electronic control systems.

[FreedomPoster]

The guys I saw discussing it were old school Audi B5 S4 people. They were getting >1000 whp out of those things 20+ years ago. 2.7L V6.

The point being, they get ECU modding, some have serious software backgrounds, etc.

I assume a lot of legacy parts issues are being solved with 3D printing. This steps up the game for automotive electronic control systems.

[Ezekiel]

reverse engineered using AI tools

Sounds like a little ingenuity was afoot, like with my "dated" tagline.

AI Overview

The image of a light bulb floating over a head is the universal symbol for ingenuity, creativity, and the sudden birth of a brilliant idea. This classic visual metaphor dates back to early 20th-century cartoons (most notably Felix the Cat) and continues to represent the "Aha!" or "Eureka!" moment when a complex problem is suddenly solved.

I also asked the Google machine,

how to say "to reverse-engineer anything" in hebrew

Its AI overview response included this relevant point:

Alternative Options

Depending on your exact context, you might want to use one of these variations:

• לְפַצֵּחַ כָּל דָּבָר (le-fa-tze-ach kol da-var): Literally means "to crack anything." This is a very common, natural slang term used in Israeli tech circles when talking about figuring out how a competitor's product or system works.

Ah, all righty then:

לפצח כל דבר

= 464, a palindrome so it reverses itself by its very nature. (Work smart, not hard.)

The first appearance of a word string in the Torah that = 464 is in verse 18...

Genesis 1

[16] And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
[17] And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
[18] *And to rule over the day* [וְלִמְשֹׁל בַּיּוֹם] and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

The standard word for the Sun (שמש shemesh, another palindrome) doesn't appear in the Torah until the covenant of the pieces:

Gen 15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

In any case, the usual understanding of the Creation account is that the "greater light" is a reference to the Sun.

I mention it because there's always those "Alternative Options".

Single letter-wise, 4-6-4 represents the letters dalet-vav-dalet, which is דוד -- David, the quintessential ruler over all Israel.

David was a man after God's own heart. He really knew how to play.

But wait just a minute, his playing skills related to his harp strings. One could say that he never left home without his beloved harp -- that it was his vade macum, like how people carry around a little book of Psalms for the go-to encouragement and comfort that David provides. A little Latin lingo there.

If you cross-reference the note names over to the standard musical scale...

in fixed do solfège (how the notes are named in Hebrew), the syllable Do is always assigned to the pitch C, regardless of the musical key or key signature.

Fixed or not, 4-6-4 is fa-la-fa, which is פה-לה-פה

85 + 35 + 85 = 205, "Re" [רה], aka a drop of Golden Sun 🌞.

Gee it's like all roads lead to...

Remember the story for how Michelangelo's Moses ended up with little horns on his head? The scary rays [of light] emanating from Moses' head were translated in the Vulgate as Moses' face being horned, from the Hebrew word keren, which could go either way.

Exo 34:29 cumque descenderet Moses de monte Sinai tenebat duas tabulas testimonii et ignorabat quod cornuta esset facies sua ex consortio sermonis Dei

A salient point got lost... in translation.

It could explain why that monumental work ended up in Rome, in the church named "St. Peter in chains."

The solfège names are based on the Latin "Hymn to St. John the Baptist" -- aka Elijah in Christian circles -- and there's even a constructed language built on the system: Solresol

The translator informs:

falafa = understand, intellect

But you know how it goes when people ramble on about stuff nobody else cares about or understands, PITA-wise it's like being one falafal short of a picnic.

As for the fixed-Do letters themselves, fa-la-fa maps to the notes FAF.

See, it's a good thing for those ever-present "Can't-Do" detractors that there's no note "O"!

Alternatively, what does work is

Fiddle Around, Find David.

"Let's start at the very beginning.." ~ Maria, who was a problem to solve.

Yet what's up with that, because the Sound of Music tunes and their lyrics are firmly embedded into the cultural collective memory. 🤷

related term/etymology: psalm

A little word about doubt:

הַנְדָּסָה הֲפוּכָה reverse-engineering = 240, a sum which is the subject of much commentary in the Jewish world, pertaining to Amalek and his son Haman of the Purim plotline. For example:

In the Hebrew language, every word has a numerological value. The word Amalek shares the same numerological value as the word safek, doubt. Amalek represents the destructive spiritual force that capitalizes on a doubtful moment and introduces yet another destructive element—irrational indifference.

Who Cares?

The Scroll of Esther is known as the "flipped over story" based on the "venahafoch hu" phrase in Esther 9:1, that "it was turned to the contrary". Same verbal root involved --

הנדסה הפוכה (Handasa hafucha) — Literally "reverse engineering"; frequently used in everyday and general contexts (AI overview again)

Catch that???

engineering: הנדסה

It has the 'INTEL inside' -- Esther's Jewish name, Hadassah (הדסה)

It really pays to follow along because "TL DR" --

IT'S THE SIMPLE MEANING.

(It's not any work at all if it is love.)

[Bobalu]

Looking at compiled C code and piecing the source code back together is a very tedious undertaking :-/

I only mess with asm these days when I absolutely need to squeeze a bit more speed out of a small section of code... mostly when dealing with microcontrollers... asm is not too complicated when dealing with simple RISC processors...

Local AI is actually fun to play with. Using the latest techniques you can do considerable work with just a 16gb GPU
like a 5060ti.

I’m having fun running MiniMax H3 on my old gaming PC with a 32gb GPU.. the results are amazing albeit a bit slow to appear if you process a clip over 15 seconds long..

[bigbob]

Look forward to these tool cracking John Deere code and ending the “right to repair” debate fo old.

[Bobalu]

I hear you..

This crap where they lock you out of your own paid for cars equipment has got to go!

It's fun to play on the CANBUS...lol

CAN bus, short for Controller Area Network, is a robust, low-cost serial communication protocol developed by Robert Bosch GmbH in 1983 and released in 1986 to enable Electronic Control Units (ECUs) and microcontrollers to communicate within vehicles and industrial systems without a central host computer. Architecture and Wiring: The system uses a two-wire twisted pair (CAN High and CAN Low) for differential signaling, which provides high noise immunity and fault tolerance. Each node consists of a microcontroller and a CAN controller, with the physical layer requiring 120-ohm termination resistors at both ends of the bus to prevent signal reflection.

[Scrambler Bob]

So maybe farmers can fix their John Deere in the field?

[bigbob]

Yep, was deeply involved with CAN-based industrial networks in the 90s. Grabbing the packets and examining the content is easy, it’s figuring out their proprietary application layer protocol that’s a b***h. But I’ll bet if you connected a canalyzer to a vehicle CAN bus and did a bunch of stuff and told AI what you were doing it could reverse engineer everything. Fundamentally no different than training a model by giving it images and captions.