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Is AI-Powered Reverse Engineering the Death of Proprietary Software?
What happened
When Nishant Tiwari, a software engineer at PayPal and a tech content creator with over 2.8 million followers on Instagram, set out to examine Uber's pricing, he used an AI-assisted reverse-engineering workflow to inspect the company's web application. His analysis of Uber's client-side code identified scripts that appeared to access battery status and other device information, including browser and hardware attributes. Nishant tested the same ride across four phones—three Android devices and an iPhone. He repeated the experiment five to six times and realised the results showed a correlation between battery levels and fares.
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Key points
- When Nishant Tiwari, a software engineer at PayPal and a tech content creator with over 2.8 million followers on Instagram, set out to examine Uber's pricing, he used an AI-assisted reverse-engineering workflow to inspect the company's web application.
- His analysis of Uber's client-side code identified scripts that appeared to access battery status and other device information, including browser and hardware attributes.
- Nishant tested the same ride across four phones—three Android devices and an iPhone.
- He repeated the experiment five to six times and realised the results showed a correlation between battery levels and fares.
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