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mrheosuperyesterday at 10:09 AM1 replyview on HN

"Making reverse engineer harder" is just a side product of "improving security" that upper-level people like to hear.

I definitely don't want my C-suite people reading "The product X of company Y has been reversed engineered" on their newspaper.


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pantayesterday at 10:25 AM

In the old days, when businesses were not governed by pure greed, many electronic products, if not the majority, included schematics in their user manual. If a product today made a point of pride of having fully open source firmware and included a github/gitlab link, there would be no reverse engineering to write about. Security can be obtained also with an open source firmware.