Reverse engineering

IDA Pro and a decompiler. You don't do that shit by hand anymore, sonny.

Can I hook IDA Pro up to mednafen and use it to disassemble PSX games?

Or simply use Terry's disassembler.

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nobody cares

security.stackexchange.com/questions/64052/can-a-pdf-file-contain-a-virus
Anyone knows good methods to check if a pdf is safe? Preferably one which focuses on pdfs, as general antimalware seems not to be very effective in finding malicious elements in pdfs.

But only so that government agencies can always reverse anything without ever needing any warrants. You didn't think this was with the average citizen in mind, did you.

Don't pdf exploits depend on the viewer that is being used?

According to Tor and Whonix devs, the PDF reader security goes as this:
Airgapped machine, online viewers that render it on server side, Tor Browser's built-in PDF viewer, local viewers without scripts support, local PDF viewers with scripts support (probably proprietary).

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