Turning the frustration of a mobile game into a reverse engineering training by Guillaume Lesniak

I consider myself a grey hat. I’m far from being the best hacker or cracker in this world, and I tend to notify most of the people I “hack” about their systems weaknesses. Almost all the “hacks” I am doing involve using some software other people built: Slowloris test tools, SQLmap, and just randomness/luck (like finding out where my ex-university stores everyone’s cookies, or just trying random stuff on APIs). Yes, I am closer to a script-kiddie than a hacker. However, for the first time ever, today, I felt like I leveled-up my skills. A little bit of back story. I am a huge fan of a mobile tower defense game. It is the typical “play 10 minutes a day” game that you enjoy playing while eating your breakfast, and I’ve been playing this game for 622 days now. That’s almost two years of dedication, every day, playing the daily....