“Comcom” is everything “adversarial interoperability” isn’t: short, easy to say, punchy and easy to spell. I’ll use “comcom” interchangeably with “adversarial interoperability.” Not all reverse engineering is adversarial (the plumber who turned your pipes into an MC Escher painting didn’t want to obfuscate their workings, they just wanted to solve a series of immediate problems in locally expedient ways). But all comcom starts with reverse engineering.
