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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 16:39:17 -0300
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On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 3:36 PM, al=C3=ADrio eyng <alirioeyng@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> Tobias Platen:
>> Emulators can be useful for reverse engineering
> reverse engineering is the action of understanding undocumented
> interfaces (mostly hardware).
> emulators are the _result_ of reverse engineering, not tools to do it.
> this result is useless if there's no other interface implementations
> to develop things to or free software requiring it to run.

I completely disagree!
I have been actively using MAME to perform reverse engineering of
non-free firmware for a bit more than a couple years.
Since I do it myself, I know my sentence is true :-)