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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Almost anyone who repairs electronics does some amount of reverse engineering. You won’t always have a schematic handy, but following the traces around a circuit board to figure out what it does often works. That’s reverse engineering, even if you don’t intend to copy any of it, just understand and fix it. I enjoy doing this, both for repairs and for the challenge.