| What is "Interface standard"? |
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Interface standard is a certain kind of interface, that is used to communicate with another device, adopted by many companies. For example, RS-232C is one of interface standard because it is very useful interface for displays, mice, serial printers, modems, and so on. The most useful interface can remain to be adopted for a long time, and become an interface standard. In addition to, interface standards can be also set by some official organizations: ANSI, ITU, IEEE, ISO , and VESA. For example, IEEE-1394 is an interface standard set by IEEE. |
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| What is "Reverse Compiler"? |
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Reverse compiler is a program which analyzes an executable file and produces a source code in a high level programming language. For example, a reverse compiler transforms a binary file into a C language source file. Reverse compiler helps reverse engineers to get the project back and develop it. However, reverse compilers are not almighty and generally expensive. Moreover, the functions and variants are named so randomly, for example A001 and A002, that the program is hard to understand. There remains a lot of point that needs resolving. |
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| What is "Peeling a chip"? |
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Peeling a chip describes the way reverse engineers analyze IC chips. Several micro computers have programmed IC chips. For example, mobile phones have IC chips on their own. Reverse engineers try to reveal the IC's program by analyzing little and little by peeling a chip. Peeling a chip is a simile expression that depicts the way they analyze. |
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| What is "Copyright protection"? |
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Copyright protection is an official restriction that forces people not to copy to resell certain electrical products: for example, application softwares, CDs, DVDs, web pages, and so on. Nobody is allowed to resell any products without the producer's permission. This protection guarantees software producers' profits. If someone violates this protection, he/she will be officially punished or imposed penalty money. As an exception, this protection allows to copy for personal use as a backup. |
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