Have you ever been tempted to open an executable in a hex editor and see if there is anything readable there? Certainly not for anti-circumvention measures, no, but out of simple curiosity, or perhaps for legal reverse-engineering purposes, to help break the monopoly’s deathgrip on peripherals surrounding the desktop. If you have, get up out of your GUI-stratolounger and follow me to the CLI. I will show you things you can do with strings.

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