Reverse engineering
Disassembly, behavior tracing, protocols, old builds, and what products reveal underneath.
Stories, research, technical notes, software and hardware investigations by Ighor July.
This is part archive, part blog, part technical notebook, and part personal history. Posts can be security research, reverse engineering notes, software behavior studies, product stories, or impressions from using and building tools
The first part of my Mac apps story, starting with my 2008 MacBook, my early switch from Windows to Mac OS X, and why I still use coconutBattery today.
How I traced Dropbox filesystem changes on a clean macOS VM and made a dry run first script to remove Dropbox local state, caches, services, and File Provider leftovers.
Disassembly, behavior tracing, protocols, old builds, and what products reveal underneath.
Bug hunting, disclosure notes, evidence, timelines, and responsible reports where they can be shared.
Independent macOS and software projects, product decisions, failures, and release stories.
Long-term notes on broken assumptions, edge cases, UX details, and real-world software use.
Operating systems, devices, interfaces, and the technology memories that still shape the work.