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Always Working Backwards
An elite brand of coder, the reverse engineer is responsible for many of the freedoms people enjoy these days.
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Always Working Backwards
An elite brand of coder, the reverse engineer usually takes a finished product (generally compiled or in a proprietary format), and, through a variety of techniques, is able to understand the inner workings and to apply that understanding in a variety of ways.
Why? Sometimes just for intellectual curiosity. Sometimes from boredom. And sometimes you need to convert a proprietary driver/format for one Operating System and port it to another. Jon recently did this to create a Linux driver for a small receipt printing machine we'll use @ LinuxWorld this year. (Ed. Note: When this was written, it was 2001.)
Of course you don't have to limit the scope of the reverse engineer to formats and compiled code - you can also reverse engineer, say, a Snickers Bar, or even a sheep ;)
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