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7 Post author: listic 01 January 2014 05:51PM

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Comment author: Yosarian2 02 January 2014 01:14:15PM 1 point [-]

I don't think that's true; if you have a physical system sitting in front of you, and you can gather enough data on exactally what it is, you should be able to duplicate it even without understanding it, given enough time and enough engineering skills.

Comment author: James_Miller 02 January 2014 05:26:43PM *  1 point [-]

I have an EE professor friend who is working on making it harder to reverse engineer computer chips.