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Taking the machine apart to learn what it was thinking.
means The act of breaking something down into its parts, or translating machine code back into human-readable assembly instructions.
from From Latin dis- (apart) plus assemble, itself from Old French assembler, to bring together — so literally to un-gather what was gathered.
Reverse gearDisassemblers turn executable bytes back into assembly mnemonics.
Furniture cousinFlat-pack instructions are assembly run backward in despair.
Legal graySoftware disassembly fuels both security research and piracy.