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by GuB-42 1420 days ago
At work, I sometimes have to encode or decode binary data, to which I have full specs, and a hex editor is an extremely valuable tool.

A hex editor is to binary data what a debugger is to code, a packet analyzer is to networking, and an oscilloscope is to electronics. These tools can be used for reverse engineering, but it is certainly not their only purpose.

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What tool do you use now ?
010 Editor (commercial). But I may give ImHex a try.