Management claimed to have gone to elaborate pains to make the software in its control systems inscrutable to reverse engineering.
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In the circumstances it is hardly surprising that Samsung has been so successful in reverse engineering the Apple iPhone.
Even common reverse engineering tools merely render malware as thousands of lines of garbled text more legible to machine than man.
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After reverse engineering the Trinity code, ISS saw several references to the word "Trinity" in it and decided to call it that.
"We're transforming our research skills from reverse engineering to engineering, " says Barbhaiya.
This is because the UCITA would ban the reverse engineering of software, a method of development often used to construct links between products.
This increases the level of security by preventing reverse engineering of an authentication service process or preventing attacks that try to modify this code.
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Snapchat said such "reverse engineering" was always going to be possible.
Adding PUF technology significantly improves the chip's protection from reverse engineering attacks, as it removes the permanent presence of the digital encryption key on the device.
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The approach, called reverse genetics, is similar to reverse engineering.
These hashes are bits of text that uniquely identify a piece of data (such as an email address) but are designed to protect against reverse engineering which would reveal that data.
Johansen testified on Thursday that he announced the successful reverse engineering of a DVD on the mailing list of the Linux Video and DVD Project (LiViD), a user resource center for video- and DVD-related work for Linux.
In order for Romania to get those computers it needed, it would buy, say, one computer from IBM (IBM) and then set its computer scientists to work reverse engineering the computer and building similar ones for internal use.
Three courts have ruled the practice is legal, while another said it could violate the DMCA. In January Sony used that law and others to sue George Hotz, one of Allegra's fellow iPhone hackers, for reverse engineering the PlayStation 3.
But he spent three years reverse engineering the flight navigation software that receives ACARS signals to find bugs that allowed him to send his own commands to the systems, either from a software-defined radio that can be tuned to use ACARS or from a compromised airline system.
Faced with a mounting struggle to maintain the combat readiness of its aging fleet of F-14 Tomcats, F-4 Phantoms, MiG-29s, and Mirage F1s, access to F-16 technology for reverse engineering (as Iran appears to have done with downed U.S. drones), would be very much welcomed by Iranian commanders.
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But oil companies are likely to invest less in boosting production if they are forced to divert billions of dollars toward reverse-engineering a smaller pipeline.
Thunderbird and other tools have to work by reverse-engineering, figuring out how PST files work by examining them carefully, because the format is not published.
While technology can certainly be a force multiplier for good or evil, it's difficult to imagine a pure A.I. approach reverse-engineering the machinations of a terrorist mastermind.
What China is buying from Russia seems rather more important than how much, especially since the Chinese are notorious for reverse-engineering much of what they buy from foreign suppliers.
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American officials have previously cast doubt on Iran's ability to extract useful intelligence from the captured spy plane, and have said that reverse-engineering a copy would be beyond Iran's technological capability.
The Chinese are reverse-engineering the weapons and mass-producing them.
So when the iPad went on sale Saturday, Kyle Wiens and his team at iFixit snapped one up, tore out its silicon heart, and brought it to the semiconductor reverse-engineering specialists at Chipworks to have it x-rayed, cross-sectioned, ground through, photographed, and violated in every possible fashion.
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