reverse engineers
Works backward technologically
Reverse engineers is the third-person singular form of reverse engineer—to analyze something to understand how it was made or how it works, typically to replicate or modify it.
Engineers reverse engineer competitors' products, hackers reverse engineer software to find vulnerabilities: She reverse engineers malware for a security firm.
The process works backward from finished product to underlying design.
- hackerUnauthorized system accessor
- security researcherOne who finds system vulnerabilities
- decompilationRecovering source from binary
- copiesMakes identical versions
- forensicsScientific crime-scene analysis
disassembly · binary code · understands · extracts · designs · duplicates · clones · analyzes · replicates · mimics · integrated circuit · firmware · takes apart · obfuscation · black box · imitates · intellectual property · assembly language
- cybersecurityantivirus, malware, firewall, firewalls, encryption
reverse engineersinventors
Creators of new devices
designers · originators · creators · architects · developers
reverse engineersinnovators
Creators of novel things
pioneers · inventors · originators · first movers · trailblazers
reverse, engineer, reversed, reverses, reversing, reversible, irreversible, reversal, reversion