Part of his solution is reverse engineering so that hardware can simply be used – something the EFF has helped legally ensure under fair use. The other half is to make it Open Source.

Although reverse engineering is by no means a silver bullet for all development problems, it certainly makes our lives easier and the lives of hackers harder.

[0xricksanchez] participated in a software reverse-engineering challenge and recently wrote up the solution, and in so doing also documented the process used to discover it. The challenge was ...

I have a bunch of Kenwood TK-2100 VHF radios that are re-programmable via the serial port. I have a DOS-based application that works with the radios, but is only reliable with computers with two ...

The .NET Framework makes it easy to reverse engineer an existing application. Discover what techniques to use to deter prying eyes from deconstructing your code.

Perhaps the most exciting thing about reverse engineering is that the more common it becomes, the faster it will develop.

Reverse-engineering is the process of taking a piece of software or hardware, analyzing its functions and information flow and then translating those processes into a human-readable format. The ...