What is reverse engineering and how common is it throughout the technology industry?
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I once had a storage system on which a certain running service would sometimes die, and the only warning it would give you when it did was an error message when you started the control software. The manufacturer of the system would not provide any information on how to determine whether the thing was even properly running or not. One day, I got fed up and did some network traffic analysts, looking at what kind of transmissions were coming and going from the systems running the problem service, vs what was happening on the systems not running it. From that, I was able to determine how to remotely check whether the service was running properly. That is reverse engineering.
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