Talk:Andrew Tridgell

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[edit] Reverse engineering

Please don't use the term reverse engineering; tridge says this is not an accurate analysis of what he does.

Andrew was my lab partner in second year physics at the University of Sydney! :-) -dmmaus 23:50, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

He didn't object four years ago...

Linux Magazine: The most interesting thing about Samba is the amount of detective work that goes into trying to reverse engineer SMB.

AndrewTridgell: Yeah, I love it. Whenever we find a spec for something, a little part of me is disappointed. I know we'll get more work done and produce better code with the spec, but in some ways it's more fun discovering things. [1]

Could you point to a source where he objects to the "reverse engineering" phrase? AlistairMcMillan 20:07, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

[2] is a recent one. I (and some journalists) personally often use "reverse engineering" to refer to Tridge's activity, but I think it's clear that he does not. A wide variety of activities have been described as "reverse engineering", and Tridge seems to believe that it would be useful to be more specific about which activity is meant. Either view may have some political implications in the long run. See also [3] (another description by Tridge of how he analyzed the SMB protocol, also without calling this process "reverse engineering"). Eventually it would be great to discuss some of these issues at reverse engineering along with the views of various legal systems and communities of programmers on the propriety of different techniques of analysis. --Schoen 08:23, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

AFAIK, he uses the term "protocol analysis" to describe his activities. Gronky 01:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)