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Genuine curiosity, who is paying for that type of work? What is a typical use case? Where is the ROI? I'm not familiar with this world at all. I appreciate any insight!


Some companies want to know how their competitors do things.

Some companies want to find how someone would RE their devices, so they pay someone to find a way, then tell them.

Sometimes just a random person will want something REd so much that they'd pay for it to be done (happened more than once)

Sometimes no cause is given to me, which is fine because that is none of my business, really.

Sometimes I just do it for fun, but then I do not get paid, eg: http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=30.%20Reverse%20Enginee...


Word to the Wise: Dmitry is legendary. His work is admired the world over.


Did you RE UART protocols?


Thank you for the reply.




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