In regard to Jim Rapozas Sept. 5 Tech Directions column on reverse engineering (“What Is Reverse Engineering?”), its almost impossible to have your cake and eat it, too. You cant [differentiate] the ...

Since modern household appliances now have an MCU inside, they often have a diagnostic interface and — sometimes — more. Case in point: Miele washing machines, like the one that ...

To isolate the components of a completed system. When a chip is reverse engineered, all the individual circuits that make up the chip are identified. Source code can be reverse engineered into design ...

Reverse engineering, copying the function or the mechanism of the function? Reverse engineering refers us to an analysis of a system or an inspiration of a system. In Burkina Faso, a few years ago, I ...

Anyone who’s ever tried their hand at reverse engineering a piece of hardware has wished there was some kind of magic wand you could tap on a PCB to understand what its doing and why. We imagine ...

Whether it’s a hit TV show like HBO’s “The Last of Us” or an interactive theme park land like Universal Studios’ Super Nintendo World, video games are ripe for adaptation and reinterpretation. But ...

Scientists are reverse engineering the galaxy. So why is it illegal to reverse engineer a DVD player or the iPhone? Even the debate pitting creationism against evolution never raises the argument that ...