HACKER Q&A
📣 mpiedrav

Reverse engineering jobs not related to security


Hi, HN! Do you know of jobs related to reverse engineering outside the security business?

For instance, interoperability with legacy systems whose docs/source are now lost (e.g., binary protocols and file formats).

Thanks!

  👤 shoo Accepted Answer ✓
> StarCraft: Remastered – Emulating a buffer overflow for fun and profit [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305769

fun and detailed write up of reverse engineering and then emulating behaviour caused by memory errors in a previous version of starcraft, to preserve backward compatibility for community maps that depended upon the undefined behaviour to implement unexpected custom logic

👤 muzani
Not sure about full time, but a lot of startups do it, and sometimes there's a need to access the data of something with a login which does not have a public API.
👤 busymom0
Is web scraping considered reverse engineering? I have quite a few friends who do web scraping and parsing as part of their job.