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		userbinator on May 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft broke a Chrome feature to promote Edge "Reverse engineering" is vague and means anywhere from "poke at it randomly to see what it does" to "read the binary".

justinclift on May 3, 2023 [–]

Isn't the more widely accepted meaning to de-compile it back to source code (of some form), and go from there?

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