Daniel Gibson wrote: > Am 26.10.2011 23:38, schrieb Steven Schveighoffer: >> >> But it's much harder to reverse engineer how someone built a machine >> than it is to reverse engineer how software is built. >
Note that reverse-engineering is like copying someone else's homework. It doesn't build any engineering capability. It actually hinders such from occurring. > Really? > I guess it depends on the machine but I imagine it isn't so hard to > dismantle a machine to find out how it works? (But I have no > experience with that, it's just a guess) > Reverse Engineering software can be pretty hard if the author made it > deliberately hard, like Skype. > Interesting. How did Skype's engineer make it hard to reverse-engineer? Have a link?