[Dirlewanger]

Seriously. I didn't think the article was going to be just prettifying a 1 liner by hand. Looking back, it's actually cringe-y that he calls this reverse engineering. You know what real reverse engineering is? Figuring out the code from the output image only.

[voltagex_]

Hold on - would you say unpacking something packed by e.g. UPX by hand (silly example) wouldn't be reverse engineering? This is just unpacking a packed program, which definitely is reverse engineering.