Learn to patch. It pays better. It lasts longer. And you get to sleep at night.
Next week, I’ll walk through a live tutorial on binary diffing: How to find the CVE-2024-1234 patch in OpenSSL and backport it to a dead Ubuntu 16.04 system. No warez. No keygens. Just engineering. Do you have a "gray hat" patching story? Let me know in the comments. crackingpatching
But for a professional engineer,