AI is letting anyone reverse engineer anything. We talked to the developer

Software engineer Morluto's tool Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) lets AI agents orchestrate decompilers such as Ghidra to pull apart compiled programs and rebuild them, and its Discord community shows people modifying devices from printers to televisions, with over 400,000 GitHub stars. Cornell Tech law professor James Grimmelmann says this will pose a crisis for trade secret and copyright law, while others warn amateurs could modify firmware they don't understand. Some social media users reported OpenAI and Anthropic blocking their use of REA, which an OpenAI researcher called "mostly accidental."