Ask HN: Reverse engineering jobs not related to security

> StarCraft: Remastered – Emulating a buffer overflow for fun and profit [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305769

fun and detailed write up of reverse engineering and then emulating behaviour caused by memory errors in a previous version of starcraft, to preserve backward compatibility for community maps that depended upon the undefined behaviour to implement unexpected custom logic

Not sure about full time, but a lot of startups do it, and sometimes there's a need to access the data of something with a login which does not have a public API.

Is web scraping considered reverse engineering? I have quite a few friends who do web scraping and parsing as part of their job.