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by muricula 1146 days ago
No. In this context reverse engineering is looking at the assembly to understand what it does. Once you understand that, you can figure out how to exploit the code, by, sending a subtly malformed packet which will cause a server to write out of bounds of some array, and corrupt the servers memory. By very carefully corrupting the server's memory the attacker can hijack the server to do whatever they want.