Paid Software Has a New Enemy (Reverse Engineer Anything)... and It's FREE

Описание: A free open-source tool called REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) lets a coding agent drive Ghidra, Hopper or IDA against any app on your machine. I pointed it at Photoshop's brush engine, rebuilt a tiny version in Rust, and compared it with PhotoCraft, the free open-source Photoshop clone from ArtCraft.

0:00 A repo that reverse engineers anything
0:23 ArtCraft: free Rust clones of Adobe apps
1:02 What REA actually does
1:44 Not a sandbox, and the fake trojan copy
1:59 Pointing REA at Photoshop's brush engine
2:47 Rebuilding the brush in Rust
3:28 DirectX 12 vs Vulkan: 3x slower brush dabs
3:56 WordCraft lag on older Intel graphics
4:15 PhotoCraft GitHub issues
4:28 The two bytes that break PSD files
4:59 What this means for closed software

Only use the official repo. A fake copy was reportedly flagged as a trojan.

Links
REA (official): https://github.com/morluto/rea
REA website: https://rea.tools
PhotoCraft: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft

Decompiler screenshots are each tool's own (Hopper: hopperapp.com, IDA: hex-rays.com), not Photoshop. Agent prompts and the error dialog are illustrations.

#reverseengineering #photoshop #ghidra