What is reverse engineering and how common is it throughout the technology industry?

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What is reverse engineering and how common is it throughout the technology industry?

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Engineering is figuring out a solution to a problem, reverse engineering is figuring out how other people solved this problem.

You can always fight the problem head on, but sometimes reverse engineering does help you coming up with your own solution instead of copying someone else’s, because now you know for a fact that this problem can be solved this way.