Type II Reverse Engineering [For Good Measure]

There´s reverse engineering to understand, and then there´s reverse engineering to copy. Counterfeiting is a very old human temptation, but it is keeping up with the digital world very well indeed. Putting aside ordinary movie piracy, we thought that for this issue we´d just compare some counterfeiting metrics, old and new. Putting the punchline right up front, counterfeiting matters in information technology (IT)—and IT might soon be where counterfeiting matters most.