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		moonchild on March 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian Running on Rust Coreutils ‘Clean-room reverse engineering’ refers to the practice of having one person look at disassembled source code, spec sheets, actual behaviour, etc. of some program; describe that behaviour to a second person; and having the second person implement the described behaviour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall#Reverse_engineeri...

eximius on March 9, 2021 [–]

Ah, that's interesting! I didn't know that was a sufficient insulation of IP.

moocowtruck on March 10, 2021 | [–]

yea seems pretty easy then right, sounds like no source that is available for eyes to see is safe from 'clean room reverse engineering'

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