Reversing software code is often perceived as a shady activity or straight-up hacking. But in fact, you can use reverse engineering ethically to research commercially available products, enhance ...

When most people think of reverse engineering, they probably have thoughts of disassembling some high-tech component or software code and learning what makes it tick, and then creating knockoffs for ...

WHEN MOST PEOPLE think of reverse engineering, they probably have thoughts of disassembling some high-tech component or software code and learning what makes it tick, and then creating knock-offs for ...

Portable CMMs and software make reverse engineering useful for modifications, new designs, and duplicating parts without drawings. If you can measure an object, you can reverse engineer it. The key is ...

[Travis Goodspeed] wrote in to tell us about his work reverse engineering the Bluetooth communications on this SPOT module. He’s targeted the post as a general guide to sniffing Bluetooth ...

Yesterday we reported that Lattice Semiconductor had inserted a clause that restricted the reverse engineering of bitstreams produced by their FPGA toolchains. Although not explicitly stated, it’s ...

Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, Vol. 41, No. 2 (156), Special Issue: Conventions and Quantification – Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Statistics and Classifications (2016), ...

“Reverse engineering” has something of a negative connotation. People tend to associate it with corporate espionage or creative desperation. In reality, reverse engineering is a useful skill and a ...

Whether it’s rebuilding a car engine or diagramming a sentence, people can learn about many things simply by taking them apart and putting them back together again. That, in a nutshell, is the concept ...