Product: Reverse Engineering

​​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

What's the next best thing to building products?

​Breaking them.

By the end of this session, you should know how to break any app open.

Areas we'll cover:

• ​Decompiling apps

• ​Making sense of obfuscated codebases

• ​Hooking into apps at runtime

• ​Forcing UI states

• ​Locating assets inside a large directory

​This will be less of a workshop and more of a lecture. This is because setting up an environment for reverse engineering is too time consuming for the session. The technical/willing among you can take this information away and w̶r̶e̶c̶k̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶o̶k̶ investigate products politely.

​Disclaimer: I am obviously not responsible for anything you do with this information.