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What is reverse engineering ? (feddit.online)
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Is it something like break open a toy, study the various components inside, then fit them up one by one and then make the toy work again, is reverse engineering something like that ???

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[–] ElHijoDelPilote@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

You not only want to dismantle and make it work again, you rather take it apart in an effort to rebuild it using your own parts. So from a finished product you in the end really understand how it works and can replicate that. Sometimes this requires you to destroy the original product. (Btw: you can also reverse engineer code for example. Not only hardware)